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• Soft Skills: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?

  …Contents: What are soft skills? If it’s about knowing how to talk to people, I can do that well enough already. Why do I need soft skills? If I become a proper scientist or engineer, I’ll be able to get a job without them. What if I’m starting my own company? I’ll be my own boss, after all. What if I just wasn’t born to be sociable and charismatic? Alri…

  02.12.2020

• To Fear or Not to Fear: Psychologist Alexander Palin on the Nature of Phobias

  …ia comes from Greece, where warriors often depicted Phobos – the god of horror – on their weapons. They believed that he would help them frighten and conquer their enemies. Science defines phobias as uncontrollable fears that lie at the core of phobic disorders. Phobias fall into two main categories: specific and social phobias.  Specific phobias are associated…

  02.12.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6

  …ems in advance here. Note that the market does not support online payments and you will be informed about the billing details shortly after the market ends. Grounding Art & Science conference  December 5,  12 - 4 pm  Online Free You might already know December 5 as World Soil Day and if you don’t – this is your chance to learn more about the imp…

  02.12.2020

• New Citizen Science Project Helps Researchers Find Volunteers

  …Scientists give people answers to many questions: what planets are made of, how to defeat diseases, and why we dream at night. But sometimes they need our help – especially when they are bombarded with loads of routine work that even 10 or 20 researchers couldn’t handle on their own. They can’t seek relief in AI, either, because first, it would need to be trained usi…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO University Debuts in Five RAEX Subject Rankings

  … picture”. It’s worth mentioning that in 2018, RAEX published a reputation ranking in five major subject areas in which information technologies were still part of engineering sciences and not an area of their own. That time, ITMO failed to rank high on any of the five lists, but in this year’s subject rankings it got into the top three in two categories and into the…

  01.12.2020

• ITMO Graduate ‪Andrei Gorodetsky on His Career, European Science, and Work in Different Countries

  … State University and ITMO, and then in Greece, Scotland, and England. ITMO.NEWS met with Andrei Gorodetsky to learn more about the differences between Russian and European science and find out his secret to working on different projects in several countries. Please tell us about your research interests. What are you engaged in? Terahertz radiation has been …

  01.12.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  …lly – with each one of them running the risk of being infected with this serious disease. That is why it is important to find a quick and accessible way of detecting TBE.   Scientists from the Chemometrics group of ITMO’s Infochemistry Research Center developed a mini-device for fast home-based detection of the TBE virus. The testing device uses electrochemical an…

  30.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: Fluorescence Microscopy Image of Neuroblastoma

  …The orange objects in the picture are cells of human neuroblastoma, a malignant tumor that develops from immature nerve cells. Neuroblastoma interests scientists not only because its in-depth study might help them fight this type of cancer. The location of human neurons – in the brain and spinal cord – makes them unavailable for direct scie…

  30.11.2020

• Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media

  …Any scientific or technological breakthrough or discovery always has at least two global results. Firstly, it expands humanity’s abilities by, for instance, allowing us to travel faster, treat diseases better, or feed more people. Secondly, it changes our perception of the world, ourselves, and the future. The former is traditionally the purview of technical and natu…

  27.11.2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …Grounding This year, ITMO University’s Art & Science Center together with the Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum introduced the wide-scale cultural and educational program Grounding which includes two large conferences, numerous lectures by top-tier artists, scientists, and philosophers, as well as an upcoming exhibition that will open in…

  27.11.2020