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• Three St. Petersburg Museums to Visit Now

  …any paintings here are deeply engraved into Russian culture. You might hear someone refer to a person making an important decision as “A Knight at the Crossroads” by Viktor Vasnetsov, or a group of people brainstorming  as “Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan” by Ilya Repin. I sometimes think about “Mast Tree Grove” by Ivan Shiskin when I need to be trans…

  03.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …e. We would have called this sphere a virtual reality before, but nowadays this term is outdated and the very concept of virtuality is lost for good.  The philosophy of networks and networks as philosophy The internet is in its core a network, an extremely complex s…

  31.01.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …achieve success in your life, but I can tell you about my mistakes and hope that this will allow you to avoid them.” According to the expert, cloud technologies, the internet and crowdfunding are in widespread use in society 4.0, but a large number of services that we can get aren’t interconnected, which has to be rectified at the new stage of development. Howev…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …hed its potential. I want to be part of the solution to those problems. I also chose this field because of job opportunities. Food companies are among the largest on the planet, and we all know that people always need to eat. This means if you work anywhere along the food supply chain, you will always have a job. Although there are food companies that close or hav…

  30.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …ort doesn’t always correspond with your physiological age, as biological processes in different humans take place at a different pace. We also shouldn’t forget about various genetic diseases like the Down’s syndrome or progeria whose sufferers age a lot faster. According to an agreed-upon definition, aging is the phenomenon of the increase of the probability of de…

  30.01.2020

• A Tour Around ITMO University's “Functional Materials and Devices of Optoelectronics” Lab

  …an LED chip in order to achieve the desired glow color. The white LEDs we are used to are based on the chips emitting in the blue range of the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. This device (in the center) measures the current-voltage and spectral characteristics of LED chips and stores the measured data for a large number of chips in the comput…

  28.01.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  …s why I decided to take part in the workshop. Here I’ve been part of the project team “Synthesize a nanopharmaceutical drug”. We’re creating two thrombolytics: one based on magnetite and another on calcium carbonate. We synthesize them by mixing different materials. The final result consists of nano-sized spheres containing the drug.  In order to better immerse my…

  28.01.2020

• Good Product Is a User-Friendly Product: ITMO Student Working on Interface Design Framework for People with Dyslexia

  …eeded further research. However, there are a lot of research projects that focus on giving recommendations for dyslexics regarding such activities as reading, writing and Internet surfing. Together with my lecturers at Tallinn University, I attempted to answer the question that eventually formed the basis of my Master’s thesis: what needs to be done to combine the in…

  27.01.2020

• Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them

  …s of threatened species in many places in Russia. We’re collaborating with Alexey Abramov from the Institute of Zoology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a group of cytogenetics specialists led by Alexander Grafodatsky from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Novosibirsk. Alexey Abramov goes on expeditions, he’s an expert on the Mustelidae, and as…

  27.01.2020

• FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property

  …re violated, for example, if I find my article published online?  Anastasia Makarova: There are many ways to protect your ownership. At your choice you can either ask for monetary compensation, deleting the article from the website or publishing it there under your name. Your actions will depend on your decision.  Whatever you decide, however, first and foremos…

  24.01.2020