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• 10 Rules of Eco-Friendly Behavior: Expert on Simple Sustainability Lifehacks

  …or the environment  People sometimes think that they know the perfect recipe for how to care about the planet: manufacture from recycled materials, give up using plastic straws and packaging, stop traveling on planes. But every decision has to be taken on its now and not be lumped in with the general rule. A very important role here belongs to the analysis of a pr…

  01.10.2019

• Crash Course in Photonics: Part 3

  … possesses the most powerful technology possible. According to the traditional approach to cryptography, they cannot be combatted. Quantum cryptography is based on the laws of physics, according to which a photon’s state cannot be read twice: right after the first impact the photon’s state changes, causing any other consecutive attempt to lead to a different r…

  26.09.2019

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  … their first year of life, it becomes easy to connect any pathology to vaccines: nothing much else happens in an infant’s life besides these procedures. As per the Russian laws on preventative immunization, postvaccinal complications are “severe and persistent health issues caused by vaccination.” You can’t just go to the hospital and report postvaccinal complicat…

  09.09.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 31-September 1, 2019

  …1 and September 1 which will bring together many of the city’s museums.  The program includes a wide range of workshops, interactive activities, contests, games and prize draws, revolving around the history of St. Petersburg, as well as art, literature, science and technology – basically, everyone will find their opportunity to win some swag and learn some swag, t…

  28.08.2019

• Don’t Believe Your Eyes: How Visual Illusions Work

  …ed are lighter than the dark ones in the light. The surprising reality is that the fragments A and B are of the same color. This case also falls under the brightness contrast laws: the color seems lighter against a dark background and darker against a lighter one. As an example of the illusions of movement, Valery Karpinskaya demonstrated the rotating snakes illus…

  28.08.2019

• ITMO Researcher Represents Russia at QKD Security Workshop

  …generally touted advantage of quantum cryptography is that it makes optical communication lines fully invisible from hacking attacks, protected by none other than fundamental laws of quantum physics. But there are specific problems and risks involved, too. Which of these does your work at the laboratory focus on? The risks are always there, you can never get rid o…

  15.08.2019

• Dine with a View in St. Petersburg

• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  …om biological evolution: as in nature, in evolutionary algorithms populations made up of a multitude of species develop over the course of several generations, subject to the laws of natural selection based on the principle of the survival of the fittest as formulated by Charles Darwin.  Their applications  Evolutionary algorithms are used to solve a wide spect…

  05.08.2019

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …y now and then, it could become a great source of additional income. And that’s what happened,” explained Igor Dmitriev. The periodic law is one of the most peculiar laws, and the history of its discovery is peculiar, too. In his first publication, Mendeleev only uses the word “law” once, and in reference to a completely different concept. In saying “law”, h…

  02.08.2019

• ITMO Fellow Fabio Bonsignorio and Professor Alexander Kapitonov: Research Reproducibility Will Generate a Sea Change in Our Economy

  …ing that, for example, robots created by the company Boston Dynamics are widely known for: there are videos of them drawing and the suchlike and the public believes them and draws inspiration from them. But when we talk about scientific progress or more serious applications for these results, we have to have a clear understanding of how many times our robot would be …

  24.07.2019