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• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

  …Stem cells are one of the most popular topics in medicine and physiology. Scientists are constantly perfecting the methods for their application in order to combat various diseases, including oncological ones. Fully mastering the technology of growing entire organs from stem cells can lead to a major breakthrough in medicine – two years ago, British science journals on treating phobias with the help of virtual reality – this is an established research field. Nevertheless, so far, absolutely no one in the world has proposed a way to deal sp…

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …Space exploration today For the past half a century, humanity has been standing on the verge of settling new planets. Many scientists believe that the only thing that holds us back is money. While it’s true that you do need a lot of it, there is another crucial problem: as of now, we aren’t able to live away from Earth. It’s hard to imagine a functioning industry …

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …The lecture was given as part of the Scicomm Cocoa Talk series by ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication. In this article, you can find the key ideas mentioned at the lecture. Donald Campbell was a prominent American psychologist, sociologist, and methodologist. Throughout his scientific career, he was engaged in question…

  23.07.2020

• Evolutionary Computations Explained in 9 Simple Questions

  …e some of the famous tasks solved using evolutionary computations? What else? What are evolutionary computations? Evolutionary computations are a part of a scientific field that deals with solving complicated tasks using algorithms that are inspired by the theory of evolution. The tasks can deal with different matters, such as developing the optim…

  23.07.2020

• This Mostly Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Mental Health

  …The Science of Well-Being In this highly acclaimed course by Yale University professor Laurie Santos, you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Prof. Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way …

  22.07.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …studies, I have spent the past year and a half working at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute’s laboratory of eukaryotic genetics, which studies repair mechanisms. My scientific interests vary greatly, but I think that molecular biology is the main one.  A friend of mine took part in one of SCAMT’s other projects, and I heard so much about it that I could…

  22.07.2020

• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  …om being an alleged “flaw”, this memory trait ensures that you don’t go crazy with all of the conflicting bits of information you encounter. Second of all, luckily, while some scientists try to find the faults in the way human memory works, others are drawn to the unique cases of mnemonists – those whose memory is seemingly flawless, which makes them capable of recal…

  21.07.2020

• Scientists Suggest Using Gold Nanoparticle Metasurfaces to Determine Substance Molecular Composition

  …Even a small concentration of such compounds can have a tremendous negative effect on the health of humans and animals. Moreover, these days chemists, physicists and materials scientists experiment with extremely small quantities of various substances in small concentrations, and that’s why they need to have a reliable way to determine even the slightest amount of an…

  21.07.2020