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• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …Wooden tools, Poggetti Vecchi, Italy, and Aranbaltza III, Spain, 171,000 and 50-137,000 years ago respectively This is more of an archaeological discovery, but a huge one nonetheless. Wooden tools are a rare find because the material rots so easily. So the descriptions of wooden tools uncovered in 2018 in Spain and Italy made a splash in the scientific community. …

  22.01.2019

• Winter, Explained: Why Snow is White, Ice Slippery, and Snowflakes Unique

  …Why do seasons have to change in the first place? Roughly speaking, it’s all because of the tilt in our planet’s axis of rotation, so that during one half of the year, one hemisphere gets more of the Sun’s attention, and the other half is vice versa. The very fact of this axial tilt’s existence causes the change in seasons. If the Earth’s axis was perpendicular to…

  21.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …es of metallic nanostructures, paved the way for the development of supersensitive sensors, biological sensors and other devices that make use of the localization of electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale. Combining metal nanoparticles and dielectrics in a single nanostructure offers new improved properties: strong nonlinear optical properties, unidirectional scatte…

  21.01.2019

• 24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development

  …Why did you choose ITMO? I got my first computer when I was 12, and I immediately started programming. I was interested in everything that had to do with computers and Internet technologies. Apart from that, I took part in various economics competitions. Even though I didn’t have economics at school, I still managed to win. When I was in the tenth grade and it was…

  18.01.2019

• Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University

  …South Korea, and students seldom interact with lecturers so that they don't attract excessive attention. Such behavior is really different from how European students behave. Nonetheless, the timid Koreans are a lot better at passing exams than international students are. For example, during the modular testing they got twice the number of points in comparison to thos…

  18.01.2019

• Movie Fridays: Black Books, or The Good Old Telly of Yore

  …, if you’re wondering). But the side-splitting sarcasm abundantly served by Black Books characters did go to my head a bit, much to my parents’ dissatisfaction, which didn’t nonetheless stop them from nicking these DVDs off me from time to time. (Needless to say that the teacher never saw that box set ever again. And so it all started. While my peers would obsess …

  18.01.2019

• Scientists Propose a Fully Optical Method for Near-Field Reshaping and Enhancement in Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Oligomers

  … properties, unidirectional scattering and the like). A plasmonic or dielectric nanoparticle can act as a transmitting nanoantenna that converts the localized electromagnetic field into freely propagating waves, or as a receiving antenna that converts the energy of the external electromagnetic field into strongly localized modes.…

  17.01.2019

• Master’s Student from Argentina: Immersing Into New Culture Is Like Starting New Life

  …Russian. He remarks that for him, this was a very interesting, albeit long, process of getting to know the country. “It’s hard to learn Russian; my biggest struggle is phonetics. The sounds you make are more guttural, whilst we talk more upwardly. Argentina has had a major influence from Spanish and Italian cultures and languages, and that’s why we’re more expre…

  17.01.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 19-20

  …Claude Monet’s Masterpieces at Etagi If you’re anything like me and prefer Impressionism to any other art movement, you’ll be delighted to hear that the Etagi creative space is currently hosting an exhibition of high-quality reproductions of Claude Monet’s best works. A total of 60 paintings are on display, each provided with a detai…

  16.01.2019

• The Best of CES 2019: Highlights and Trends

  …age them to buy new products is to make new devices as convenient and handy and possible. Flexible gadgets Can you imagine a TV that can coil itself into a small cabinet? LG has just created it. Samsung has also demonstrated their new development: The Wall, a TV made up of borderless tiles; the modular design allows additional tiles to be added. The version…

  15.01.2019