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• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

  …r one's emotions. What is more, lighting design has great social, cultural and even philosophical importance. Science and art have been interacting throughout the world's history. Today, these fields' integration occurs on the background of the rapid development of technology - artists are set on finding new ways to reshape reality, and science provides for the ne…

  22.05.2017

• Science Without Borders: The IV International i-Customs Conference

  …g Committee, authors of 18 best projects of the conference’s first offsite round were invited to St. Petersburg to present their work. For the first time in the conference's history, participants from different countries gathered into teams so as to complete collaborative research projects. Participants of the i-Science conference "Our partners from diffe…

  22.05.2017

• Trolling Evolutionists with Flatfish or: Five Facts that Prove Natural Selection

  …w. The bacteria have gone through more than 61 thousand generations. The research team takes a sample of each tenth generation and freezes it, ensuring that they have a full history of the organism’s development. Credit: anthropos.org.ua At one point the team studied the various generations and discovered that a new species had emerged through the course of e…

  22.05.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

• Music Under the Sky and Art that Never Sleeps: Lively Weekend in St. Petersburg

• Visiting Scientist Silvio Hrabar: Why It’s Important to Find New Uses for Old Discoveries

  …wonder why after 15 years of studying metamaterials there are still so few practical applications. But one has to keep in mind that this is a new field of study. Look at the history of things that are well-known and widely used today, like, say, LEDs. 60 years had passed between the moment they were first proposed and planned out and until they were finally commoditi…

  16.05.2017

• Carving Your Niche

• ITMO University and Kazan Quantum Center Launch the First Multinode Quantum Network in CIS

• Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters

  …ow they can be found, but it required a lot of intellectual and financial efforts to finally achieve that spectacular result. The discovery of gravitational waves is a lengthy story of technological development, including the various photon detection technologies, which would be impossible without lasers and semiconductors. It is examples like these that politicians …

  11.05.2017

• Psychophysiologist Alexander Kaplan: Why Elon Musk is Weaving “Neural Lace” and Will AI Help Conserve Resources for Human Brain?

  …he machine’s memory holds records of all the notable games. The machine plays against a human and considers its next turn by juxtaposing it with the most successful plays in history. A human does the exact same thing in this situation, but his memory is much smaller than a machine’s. Has anyone ever been allowed to peek at their laptop during a championship? Isn’t th…

  10.05.2017