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• Small and Smaller: Micro- and Nanoscale Robotics Can Help Doctors and Ecologists

  …tentacles. This method is widely used in nature — it helps grab objects without hurting them. The scientists fabricated micro tubes just 8 millimeters long using flexible and viscous polymers called elastomers. The walls of these tubes have different width — when one pumps air into a tube, the asymmetry provokes a coiling action. These micro-robots can be used in med…

  30.01.2017

• Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material

  …lcium and other minerals are diluted and extracted from organic compounds that contain it. "We use crustaceans, fungi and insects to obtain it. By the way, chitin was first discovered in champignons. The use of chitin and chitosan becomes wider with every year. This polysaccharide is now used in food supplements, drugs, burn medications, soluble surgical sutures, r…

  24.01.2017

• Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?

  …ks? I mean — how were pigments, or art glass, created? No one would allow me to just take an art object and do a chemical analysis — yet, if I did, I would have made a lot of discoveries and helped restoration artists do their work a lot better. So, what does museum staff have to do to prevent art objects from deteriorating? Art objects are really sensitive to chang…

  23.01.2017

• Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV

  …burg. If one has the mutation in one alley, he would be susceptible to HIV, but the disease will be a lot less acute. Timothy Brown. Credit: vstrecha.by In 2007, it was discovered that resistance to HIV can be "transplanted" to a person. Thanks to it, Timothy Brown has become the first person in the world to ever be cured from HIV. Mr. Brown was diagnosed with …

  19.01.2017

• ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?

  …h peculiarity appearing when solving specific equations. However later it was proved that this phenomenon is much closer to real life — thanks to resonance theory, scientists discovered that one can meet such states in various wave processes like sound waves and surface water waves. In the article Mikhail Rybin and Yuri Kivshar, head of the Nonlinear Physics Centr…

  17.01.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …ect aims to send 81 satellites to space in the coming months. WhatsApp Insecure. Though Facebook claimed that its WhatsApp messaging service is secure, a backdoor has been discovered over nine months ago and still hasn’t been fixed, according to The Guardian. That means that others can intercept and read encrypted messages. Hello Telegraph? Seeing Quantum. Scie…

  16.01.2017

• A Guide for Energy Saving: How to Make It Safer and Cheaper

  …e cheap and widespread. The problem is that such batteries stop working after several charging sessions. The researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (the USA) discovered that this problem was caused by uncontrolled chemical reactions, manganese "disappears" in the electrolyte solution. To slow this process down, the researchers added manganese ions to…

  13.01.2017

• The Art&Science Cluster Opens Its Doors

  …pense of the real world. It became clear to many scientists and artists that it is necessary to integrate knowledge, experience and methods of art and science so as to discover new ways of how we can find the balance between technologies and reality as well as comprehend ourselves. The strategy of the Art&Science Cluster includes the best trends in the worl…

  09.01.2017

• ITMO Graduate About Becoming a Professor in One of the Most Prestigious Universities in France

  … in particular, the application of mathematical methods in the analysis of distributed algorithms, is theoretical but directly connected to practice. Ten years ago, it was discovered that the power of computer processors can’t be increased. This became difficult and impractical for economic reasons. Until this time, for a long time, every two years, the computing …

  09.01.2017

• Tours of CERN, or What to See at the Largest Collider Ever

  …ts noticed some anomalies in ELENA's operation. As it turned out, the reason behind the problem was a working air conditioner. Yet, even such small details can lead to actual discoveries. "Actually, it's hard to get access to an accelerator even if you're working for CERN. First of all, you'd have to sign a contract where you state that you understand the po…

  06.01.2017