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• Koliada: Russian Trick-or-Treating?

  …e supposed to represent the dead souls that come back to their homes to receive gifts from the living and bless them in return. Creepy, huh? Understandably, people rarely carol these days, especially in big cities. It’s definitely not a pop-culture activity like trick-or-treating in the US – it’s more of a dying tradition that is hard to maintain in urban conditio…

  07.01.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 9-10, 2021

  … the fresh air. Urban explorers must visit the most festive venues after the holiday rush: take a pic of the real fir tree inspired by the Soviet times on the Palace Square, stroll along the Nevsky Prospekt to enjoy numerous artworks, see the decorations of multiple festive markets, and so on. Keep up with our weekly guides to find things to do – both online and o…

  06.01.2021

• Cyber-Corona: How Businesses Managed the Transition to Working From Home

  …ork PCs, had to solve the issue of giving access to personal devices and managing them. The second issue had to do with introducing new systems, especially security and control systems. The urgency of it all made the task even harder, as everything had to be done quickly yet meticulously, as cybercriminals can easily make use of any vulnerabilities. This le…

  06.01.2021

• Watermelon Snow and Palm-Size Snowflakes: Exciting Facts About Snow

  …Professor Valentina Gorbatenko, head of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology at Tomsk State University, explained where colored snow comes from, what determines a snowflake’s shape, and why it’s been snowing a lot in the Sahara Desert. Mikhail Semenov, an associate professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University’s Division for Experimental Physics, spoke about …

  05.01.2021

• Picture of the Week: Mobile Manipulator Robot KUKA youBot

  …pers for security reasons. KUKA’s code, however, is open-access. Since it’s low-powered and thus can’t harm a human being, it’s very useful for research and testing of new control algorithms, as well as for teaching students to work with real equipment. Initially, the robot could only move from point A to point B. Then, the laboratory staff developed a trajectory …

  04.01.2021

• 5 Holiday Movies and Series to Binge On

• ITMO Technopark in 2020: Tech Business, New Clubs, and International Cooperation

  …that the Accelerator’s efficiency markers have increased fivefold this year. “During this year, we managed to form a funnel of over 1,300 applications, of which 150 enrolled at our Accelerator program based on a competitive selection. The participants attracted over ten million rubles from investors. The Accelerator helped more than 60 projects enter the mar…

  31.12.2020

• Greening for Sustainable Development: Highlights from Lectures on Urban Studies

  …te professor Irina Shmeleva, head of the Laboratory of Sustainable Urban Development. The first day of the lectures was entirely devoted to the topic of urban greening, its role in the ecological and economic state of the metropolis, as well as its impact on the psychological and physical condition of city residents. Kristina Vardanyan, PhD, a landscape designe…

  30.12.2020

• Scientists from ITMO Discover a New Way to Create Reconfigurable Topological States of Light

  …nformation with the help of light providing many advantages, such as energy efficiency, compactness, and high operation frequency. One of the promising solutions regarding control of light at the nanoscale is the concept of topological states of light that can propagate without being scattered on defects and can form localized states with a frequency resilient to var…

  30.12.2020

• Presidential Scholarship for Studying Abroad: Winners Share Their Stories

  … their use in the field of biotechnology. On current projects The key goal of the projects that I’m working on is the creation of an effective platform based on polyelectrolyte micro- and nanocapsules for the purposes of delivering genetic material into cells. Today, when developing methods, we use a plasmid DNA that codes a green fluorescent protein. This make…

  29.12.2020