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• ITMO Open Science: Science and Cutting-Edge Inventions Presented at One of Russia’s Largest Contemporary Art Museums

  …ecific At the Erarta exhibition halls, ITMO University’s students and young scientists presented their research theses as part of the Future Now section. For example, Ekaterina Alekseeva, Master’s student at the ChemBio Cluster, spoke about the role of fractalkine in metastasis. “Fractalkine has a receptor which is expressed on immune cells and on tumo…

  10.02.2020

• How to Find Your Favorite Video Game Genre

  …nt to devote a couple of hours a week to your newly established digital hobby.  So let’s say, you have seven potentially interesting games on the list that meet your criteria. Now would be a good time to mention that game prices generally fall into the range between $4 and $60, so acquiring all items on your little list could turn out to be quite expensive. An…

  07.02.2020

• GIS for Beginners: How to Start Working with Maps and Why Do it in the First Place

  … important feature – these are coordinates which are bound to every element of the map and allow to unmistakably identify an object in space. In their turn, the maps are characterized by a projection, which is a mathematical law that reflects how the Earth’s surface is transferred onto a plane. QGIS is a free service where anyone can create their own map. The syst…

  07.02.2020

• What Is Infochemistry?

• MOOCs for Everyone: How to Create an Effective and Useful Online Course

  …and Coursera. Each of these platforms has its own specifics; for example, on edX the courses last for five weeks, while the Open Education ones span ten weeks. But the main criteria remain the same, and those are: high-quality and informative content consisting of video lectures and tests.  A typical online course is comprised of several types of content. First an…

  06.02.2020

• ITMO Engineers’ New AC System Brings a Breath of Fresh Air to Historical Buildings

  …ct into the building to ensure the comfort of students and staff, while another duct expels the “used up” air onto the street along with extra humidity, carbon dioxide, and bacteria. And though the time is long past midnight, the staff of the Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering – inventor Sergei Muraveinikov’s team – are hard at work. Several months ago, they’ve inst…

  06.02.2020

• Not Conflict, But Synergy: On Salvador Dali’s Relationship with Science

  …such well-known works as Portrait of my Sister (1925), The Invisible Man (1929-32), Enigmatic Elements in a Landscape (1934), Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon (1941), Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero (1947), and The Maximum Speed of Raphael's Madonna (1954). Artist and science Professor Stafeev, can you tell us how you ended up working on this p…

  05.02.2020

• ITMO University Researchers’ Work on DNA-Based Nanorobot for Cancer Diagnostics

  …s, and biologists. Scientists have high hopes for gene therapy, which combats mutations that occur in cells. “DNA is the foundation of the cell, it contains its genetic material, which is needed to encode proteins that are vital for the existence of the cell,” shares Ekaterina Goncharova, a co-author of the research. “When a cell b…

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …al processes occuring in them for a number of applied tasks associated with the development of extremely small optical devices. The established problem is that in regular material not presented in the form of nanoparticles, many useful optical effects that draw on the use of light energy are very weak. But thanks to optical resonances, the scientist managed to amp…

  03.02.2020

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

  …the world. They are facts which only need to be interpreted within the framework of a certain discipline.  Second, data comes from different sources, it has different characteristics, which allows us to jump between different formats and levels in our analysis.  Third, the data is graphic by itself. We only need to find a form to present it, which is what media…

  31.01.2020