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• Battle of the Capitals: St. Petersburg Takes Home the Prize

  …until this autumn, when the second tournament will be held. Perhaps it might move to Moscow if the first one’s winners don’t reaffirm their status as champions. The organizers promised to make the next competition even more exciting, to further flesh out the rules and possibly add a new kind of task. “The competition was less about robotics as it was about speed…

  15.05.2017

• “People Need You!” Contest: Social Entrepreneurship for Children

  …oolchildren from St. Petersburg. A project called “From Trash to Salvage: Do It Yourself and Teach a Friend” from a team representing school 261 took second place. The kids promoted conscious treatment and sorting of household waste. They conducted a large-scale awareness campaign in their neighborhood and organized meetings during which they educated others on th…

  12.05.2017

• ITMO University and Kazan Quantum Center Launch the First Multinode Quantum Network in CIS

  … two facilities via an existing underground optical fiber cable. In June 2016, Russian Quantum Center launched another quantum communication line - between two buildings of Gazprombank in Moscow, and in September 2016 Moscow State University connected two nodes in towns of the Moscow Region. This time in Kazan, the developers succeeded in uniting several subscribers …

  11.05.2017

• Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters

  …be able to create a polariton laser, which will be much more effective than a regular device. This laser can be used for optical data transmission. Secondly, there is a lot of promise for solitons as information carriers. The chief property of solitons is that these electromagnetic waves don’t dissipate in all directions, but are instead very localized and directiona…

  11.05.2017

• Coordinating Blood Banks and Organizing International Summer Camps - How One Develops Social and Ecological Projects?

  …iversities as well. Eco Raids International Camp Another of Eco Raids 2017's features will be the focus on technological projects. If last year the students had to use impromptu means for creating their devices, now all the materials will be prepared beforehand. "We want to add a practical module to the program, so that the participants will not only propo…

  10.05.2017

• “Edible Science” Course: How to Cook a Modernist Dish and Learn About All Colors of Potato

  …arious types of food. “I’m taking this course because I want to get into innovative dairy production. I read a lot about dairy and dairy microorganisms and I think it’s a promising field. Perhaps people will learn to treat diseasesusing lactoproteins and sustain themselves with mega-nutritional mixtures. I’d love to play a part in making that a reality. I’ve alr…

  05.05.2017

• Alexander Boukhanovsky Elected to Russian Science Foundation Review Board

  …The RSF's mission is to provide support for the most promising scientific projects and the most enthusiastic scientists.  The winners of the foundation’s grants receive long-term funding which allows them to fully devote themselves to world-class projects. The task of the foundation’s review board on scientific projects is to pick such projects. The board’s members a…

  05.05.2017

• Silicon Nanoparticles for Nanosurgery: Master’s Student Publishes an Article in Nano Letters

• The Future Of Games Industry: Advice To Novice Developers

  …that work for all Microsoft platforms and can dynamically switch between them. We've gathered the expert's best advice below. Remember the keyboard and mouse We actively promote games that imply using sensor screens, yet lots of people still use devices that work with the traditional keyboard + mouse interface. That is why one should make sure that the game wor…

  27.04.2017

• Solar Panel of the New Generation by ITMO PhD Student

  …or instance, a silicon layer size of 180 micron absorbs the same amount of light as a perovskite size of 1 micron. The researchers of a new lab at ITMO are going to study this promising material. Solar panels   credit:depositphotos.com To develop conductive contacts for perovskite solar panels one uses pulsed laser deposition or laser ablation. It is a meth…

  25.04.2017