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• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …while usually light falls on it and scatters forward, if you act on the nanoparticle sideways using a special control pulse, it will begin to scatter light backward. What we obtain as a result is an ultrafast nanoantenna that controls the direction of light scattering.” Near-field microscope Sergey Makarov and his colleagues also used resonant semiconduct…

  03.02.2020

• Global Warming and Cold: How Refrigeration Industry Reacts to Contemporary Challenges

  …se effect and damage the ozone layer. These days there are a lot of new environmentally friendly alternatives.  For instance, the primary cooling agents used nowadays are obtained naturally, like isobutane, propane and mixed natural cooling agents. Liquid CO2 and ammonia also have a lot of potential. Countless shopping malls in the USA and EU already function on a…

  03.02.2020

• Song of the Month: January 2020

  …archeuse. It’s such an aesthetically clean, streamlined kind of sound – but also one that abounds in charisma and uniqueness; spellbinding and calming at the same time, and certainly unforgettable.   Ethan  From the 1939 cult classic The Wizard of Oz, this song is perfect for the start of an adventure and also seems appropriate for the year’s opening…

  31.01.2020

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

  …lets). It might appear to be a rather complex array of data, but it all comes down to a combination of 1s and 0s, the code being its main essence.  Any data comprising a certain entity, such as a Facebook profile or an Instagram page, is called a digital object. They all exist and operate in the digital sphere. We would have called this sphere a virtual reality be…

  31.01.2020

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

  …yuki Zamma. Sharing information  For all these technologies to work, it’s necessary to create the right atmosphere and infrastructure for information sharing. A certain standardization of data is need so that it would be convenient for different companies, services and public agencies to exchange it.  Speaking on this topic, Mr. Zamma also mentioned th…

  31.01.2020

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

  …to reach out to them without hesitation - they will always try to help. What is your primary goal in your Master’s degree?  Food Biotechnology is a new field but I am certain it can turn into a very promising branch in biotechnology with excellent growth potential. My main goal is to study as much as I can because I want to be an expert in food biotechnology fo…

  30.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …cellular organisms is fasting. Multiple experiments and tests on various animals showed that decreasing food rations has a positive effect on lifespan. The best results were obtained when decreasing the rations by 65% from what an animal would have eaten if there were no restrictions. Can we attain the same results without hunger pan…

  30.01.2020

• Digital Humanities Week: Physicist and Mathematician Ivan Yamshchikov on the Use of Algorithms in Humanities Research

  …ntific if it is possible to conduct an experiment that would refute the original idea. The philosopher’s idea was that any scientific statement should be looked upon with a certain amount of doubt, as this is what helps separate science from dogma. And while in physics this idea emerged long before Popper, it’s not that straightforward with humanities. This is why th…

  30.01.2020

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

  …ped with DRON-8 X-ray diffractometer by a Russian company Burevestnik. It is one of the main instruments for analyzing materials. It helps characterize the quality of the obtained crystals and heterostructures by measuring the X-ray diffraction spectra. It is also used for heat treatment of the developed thin-film semiconductor structures.  We use modern se…

  28.01.2020

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

  …up pursuing their own research project; this year, we’ve had ten of these in total,” says Polina Khapaeva, SCAMT’s director for development. “In a week’s worth of work, they obtain not only theoretical knowledge but also, most importantly, a specific practical result: a nanopharmaceutical drug, a model of the vascular system and so on. The project incorporates the te…

  28.01.2020