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• In Search of Phantom: Regular Graphite and PVC to Help Diagnose Oncological Diseases

  …ting tumors, it’s essential to pinpoint their location, so that the treatment would target tumorous tissue and have minimum effect on adjacent healthy cells. For this purpose, scientists use various diagnostic devices, for example terahertz spectrometers and visualizers. They emit terahertz impulses on some area of a body, part of which is absorbed and part ― reflect…

  07.12.2020

• 5 Things That Make St. Petersburg Russia's Cultural Capital

  …ational ones. Over 250 Russian and foreign films were filmed in St. Petersburg, not to mention the countless others that feature the city and its inhabitants. Education and science St. Petersburg is rightly called one of Russia’s scientific centers, with every seventh Russian researcher working at one of the city’s

  07.12.2020

• Bioprosthetics: Can They Really Be Controlled With Our Minds?

  … prosthetics, their production will reach a new level. They will become cheaper and more available. Are cyborgs reality or fiction? Only a couple of years ago, science fiction depicted cyborgs in a very distant future. We are used to seeing cyborgs as superhumans with added abilities and strength. Thus, people with prosthetic arms, legs, with cochlear…

  04.12.2020

• Food of the Future: What’s to Come?

  …re and more types of foods to consume, we can also improve upon those that are familiar to us. Could these future foods help people lead a more active life? And what role does science play in this? Many factors influence the development of the food industry: the global economical and political situation, changes in people’s needs and preferences, new food producti…

  04.12.2020

• Scientists Develop Transparent High-Performance Material for Flexible Displays and Solar Panels

  …terial will poorly conduct electrons, while a thick one will have better electrical conductivity than even ITO but its surface will be absolutely black. Russian and Finnish scientists decided to find a way out of this problem. Initially, they proposed the concept of a two-layer material. “We designed thick nanotube films with low transmittance and simulat…

  04.12.2020

• FoodTech Master’s Program Head Olesya Volokh: Food Is Always in Fashion

  …"Science seemed like the most interesting thing" Tell us a bit about yourself. How did you become a scientist? It was, one might say, a challenging path. At school, I liked everything, so when it came time to choose a career, science seemed like the most interesting thing, so I picked it. That’s how …

  03.12.2020

• Nanolasers, MRI, and Cultural Heritage: ITMO University Wins Three Megagrants

  … 8th megagrant competition have been recently announced. The so-called “megagrants” are large research grants awarded for purposes of research by the Ministry of Education and Science. The Council on Grants selected 43 applications from various Russian universities and scientific centers, including three from ITMO – a record number for …

  03.12.2020

• Scientists Demonstrate New Opportunities for Controlling Light in Optical Graphene

  …In the last 15 years, scientists all over the world have been actively researching various properties of graphene, a two-dimensional material that’s composed of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Simply put, carbon atoms in graphene compose hexagonal cells. Such a structure of a crystal lattice makes it so that electrons in this material can behave as part…

  03.12.2020

• Student Spotlight: Omar Ceesay, Gambia

  … higher education systems. ITMO is a recognized institution in research and that attracted me to come to this university. Why did you choose that program? I’m a computer science fan and my best friend is my computer. I want to build things, useful software and applications from anywhere in the world, only with the help of my computer, which is why I decided to …

  03.12.2020

• Best Projects by Participants of Online School by ITMO Avatar Developers

  … Cognitive Technologies and head of the gamification track. “We offered to the participants to develop a game that would encourage the user to do specific things: pursue their scientific career, do better at work, and study. The participants’ projects turned out very interesting, and we may well introduce some of them in the next iteration of our platform.” …

  02.12.2020