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• Love Spring Cleaning Like a Russian

  … soap, and de-dust the shelves behind those glass doors while you’re at it.   De-clutter. Russians hate throwing anything away because “the black day” is always around the corner, and you never know what you might need. The dacha, with its seemingly infinite storage in the attic, is often used as a midpoint between the closet and the dumpster for all those aging v…

  11.05.2020

• Optical “Nanomixer”: Scientists Propose New Method for Mixing Liquids

  …pinning around the silicon cube, acting as a stirring “spoon” for mixing reagents. What’s more, the size of such a system is so small that it can amplify the diffusion at one corner of a microreactor by hundreds of times while practically not affecting what happens in the other. Green with gold It’s quite natural to ask why scientists proposed to use gold parti…

  04.05.2020

• ITMO PhD Student Dmitry Zhirihin Receives Prestigious IEEE Graduate Fellowship

  …gical insulators, both normal ones, with particles running only on the surface, and higher-order ones, where the electromagnetic wave only runs on the edges or focuses in the corners. This will make the system more flexible, giving us more possibilities to manage electromagnetic waves.  How did you come into topological photonics? Initially, when I was a Bachel…

  29.04.2020

• Don’t Leave the Room, Don’t Make a Mistake and Run: Poems Every Russian Knows

  …                                            of spittle, a gem? Sergei Yesenin, with his many love affairs resulting in lyrics that never once fail to touch the deepest corners of your soul, and his tender love for his motherland manifesting in his early verses. His Letter to Mother could be cited as one of his most known works: Are you still alive, my dear …

  28.04.2020

• Citizen Science: How to Contribute to Research From the Comfort of Your Home

  …rious species’ info cards or helping other users identify unfamiliar specimens. A similar project, focused exclusively on the avian world, is eBird, founded in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. Right now, it is among the fastest-growing citizen science projects: according to its creators, more than 100 million bird sightings are contribut…

  15.04.2020

• Scientists from ITMO and S.N. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex Have Developed and Introduced New Laser Method for Cataract Surgery

  …plex, and almost all their cataract surgeries make use of two lasers. It has been clinically proved that in the long-term, the use of this method allows to reduce the loss of corneal endothelial cells by 1.8 times in comparison with ultrasonic phacoemulsification, and there have yet been no reports of macular edema or endothelial-epithelial co…

  08.04.2020

• Window to the World: ITMO Programmers’ New App Helps Combat Self-Isolation Loneliness

• How to Follow a Healthy Diet During Self-Isolation

  …bbage kimchi, sauerkraut, soaked apples, pickles, kefir, soured milk). Eating these products on a regular basis reduces the risk of illness from respiratory pathogens and foodborne pathogens, the expert says. However, according to Elena Kiprushkina, taking probiotics as supplements is useless. “Biotechnological probiotics in the form of medication don’t have …

  07.04.2020

• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  … share with today’s students? Value your time. Don’t waste it for no good reason. If you’ve picked a field, study it earnestly. Sometimes, students refuse to learn and cut corners, thinking they’re fooling their teachers; in fact, they’re only fooling themselves because they’re wasting the time they’ve got to learn their trade. So learn, do what you love, and beco…

  03.04.2020

• Aleksei Vodovozov on Pandemics: What Should We Expect?

  …cycle repeats itself. Sometimes, though not often, a pathogen enters the carrier again – that’s called re-infection. Transmission  Everyone has heard something about airborne transmission, however, few are aware that this term actually includes two different transmission ways. Air is considered to be the main way of contamination, but it’s actually not the m…

  19.03.2020