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• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …er at the Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies (SCAMT) at ITMO University. Strong optical properties in this class of materials were discovered by scientists for the first time and open up new possibilities for the development of new generation optical devices. Valentin Milichko, researcher at the Research Center for Nanophot…

  02.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …y of 500 Terabits per square inch (Tbpsi), 500 times better than the best commercial hard disk currently available. TUDelft. Dragon ants. A group of Japanese entomologists discovered four new species of ants and named two of them after dragons in the popular Game of Thrones series. P. viserion and P. drogon show off distinctive large spines protruding from their d…

  30.07.2016

• New Technologies Make Energy Safe and Effective

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …ime patients underwent medical tests at Canadian and American medical clinics. A total number of 450 thousand patients took part in the research. Finally scientists didn’t discover any difference in health condition between the two groups. Multivitamins don’t provoke complications but at the same time they also don’t reduce the risk of heart diseases. However i…

  27.07.2016

• Time to Register For Russia’s First Online Science Communication Course

  …  “I’ve spent a lot of time looking for potential journalists, and I know that a person who is good at writing news is a rarity, a catch. I want to help such people to be “discovered”. As for the general purpose of the course, it is focused on maintaining trust and common ground between scientists, journalists and PR-specialists”, - adds Ilya Ferapontov. The …

  25.07.2016

• PhD Student Knows how to Protect State Secrets

  …hnologies. The student wants to put his research into practice but at the same time supposes that results of scientific breakthroughs should be accessible. “If a scientist discovers something he doesn’t have to keep it a secret. Sometimes researchers don’t share details of research so as to make money out of their projects. I think that it inhibits scientific deve…

  21.07.2016

• How an Iranian Student Chose St. Petersburg Over New Zealand

  …going to leave it. However, despite the fact that he enjoys living in this Russian city, there are of course things that he also doesn’t enjoy. For example, he was shocked to discover that people here have never heard of his country and can’t even find it on the map. Regardless, it seems to him that many Russians have a lot of stereotypes about Iran. For example, som…

  19.07.2016

• Additional Education Helps to Double One’s Salary

  …instance, having analyzed only open sources, we found out that currently there are 378 dance centers in St. Petersburgand, demand for them is not very high. Furthermore we discovered several unobvious and funny results. For instance, adults look for English courses for their children, but the interesting thing was that mothers, fathers and grandfathers do that whi…

  18.07.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …s. ITMO News 3. St. Petersburg Iconic Aurora Battleship is back in the heart of the city after several years of repairs. Fontanka.ru 4. New dinosaur in t-rex family was discovered in Argentina. NBCNews. 5. Arizona Science Center, Large Hadron Collider and NASA’s Johnson Space Center are among the world’s top science centers that are also Pokémon Go hot spots…

  16.07.2016

• The New Way of Teaching Metamaterials

  …nd Photonics” took place. Students’ participation in such kind of events is an integral part of the educational process. It helps them to keep abreast of current research and discoveries. Anton Ovcharenko, graduate of the Chair, said: "Furthermore the Laboratory provides students one fully funded trip to a conference abroad (if the student has original research …

  08.07.2016