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• "In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible

  … basis and include support for other languages. Benefits Publications in scientific journals have long served as a primary way of showcasing the results of research and discoveries. It is the data that is used by science communicators and journalists to inform the public of new inventions. The project’s creators hope that it will be a useful tool for scientists…

  21.08.2017

• ICO-Hypethon: Will Bitcoin Take Over The World?

  …y, Erik Benz, managing director of CryptoPay, and many others. The prize pool for the event was contributed by ICO-angels who received special bonuses for it, including a 50%-discount on the hackathon winners' tokens. Why people like bitcoin During the two days of the event, the world's leading experts in cryptocurrencies made their presentations. Tom Weis, a r…

  21.08.2017

• ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School

  …e. As a result, the team created a vest with a 3D sensor that could be used to track the back's position. The vest also featured motors that vibrated if one's position caused discomfort to his or her spine, and ceased only when the back's position returned to normal. Anna Ksenofontova and Anna Filippova They also developed a prototype of an application that can…

  18.08.2017

• IEEE Award Winner Slobozhanyuk: “There Are No Stupid Questions in Science”

  …ody will give an award to some dead-end research, for instance, if a project doesn’t describe an entirely new concept, or exciting results of some experiment, or an important discovery in a well-known field. A few months ago, the #actuallivingscientist hashtag went viral on Twitter, with scientists using it to make the public aware of their work in various fields …

  16.08.2017

• Cool Science: Why Science Communication Matters

  …inions, ethics and the future of science journalism. Who needs SciComm? First and foremost, the scientists. And it’s not just about their selfless desire to share their discoveries, enlighten and educate the public. The simple reason for this is that these days large European grants like, for instance, Horizon 2020, require their applicants to make their work a…

  09.08.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  … It will inspect approximately a billion space objects – just 1% of the entirety of the Milky Way. Another of its goals is the search for exoplanets. The telescope has so far discovered 80 stars that are moving away from the center of the galaxy towards its edge at high speeds. Hypervelocity stars are difficult to find; earlier on, scientists managed to d

  08.08.2017

• International Team of Scientists Proved How Intestinal Microbiota Can Affect the Flu

  …t the course of the disease. “Preliminary data shows that DAT plays a role in the replication of interferon and strengthens the immune response of the infected body. The discovery about human microbiota to modulate the host response to the influenza virus might have a significant role in understanding the heterogeneous response to the infection in humans. Our re…

  04.08.2017

• International Research Team Makes Progress in HRS Virus Study

  …ow it functions. The comparison of new proteins to those that have already been studied can help us with that. The structural similarities between NS1 and M are an unexpected discovery; these proteins are not alike in their amino acid sequences. It is possible that they are paralogues, meaning that they have originated from the same protein. Since we know that the M-…

  31.07.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  … told them about the trip, and arranged everything for them. “One of our university staff knows people from ITMO and she asked us if we wanted to go to St. Petersburg, and we discovered it was very affordable. She did all the paperwork and we just had to pay and get our visas.” explained Bastien Fadda. Almost half of their class has come along for the trip and the…

  28.07.2017

• “Night of Light” in Gatchina

  …is based on common symbols and images that work on a subconscious level, say the authors. For example, one of the most telling images is that of apples – an ancient symbol of discord. In some cases, visitors will witness the metamorphoses that happen to people over the course of their lives: one such image is a human jumping through a ring of fire (a metaphor for har…

  27.07.2017