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• Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy

  …ccomplish particular tasks. But as technologies develops, the necessity of applying a  rigorous scientific approach to research becomes obvious and necessary. Let’s say that I want to write an article on algorithms for obstacle avoidance. In order to do that, I will have to learn how many times the robot fell while trying to avoid the obstacles and how many times thi…

  25.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  … USA import preparations for 220 millions a year. In such conditions, consumers expect good quality control. Be it a preparation from the south of Russia, China or Spain, they want equal quality in every country. Today, there exist four approaches to metabolic analysis: comprehensive metabolic analysis: qualitative and quantitative analysis of all metabol…

  22.03.2019

• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  …The Botanical Garden is one of those wonderful places you go when you want to take a trip around the world but can’t. It boasts the fifth biggest collection of plants found everywhere from tropical rainforests to deserts. However, what makes this place truly amazing and different from other museums, is that its exposition changes every day (quite literally): plants a…

  22.03.2019

• ITMO University Students Win NTI Competition

  …mail saying that it would be great if the teams included at least one specialist with experience of working with this software,” says Evgenia Sevasteeva. But the students want to cut the organizers some slack, saying that they did recognize their mistake and did their best to solve it as fast as they could. At the end of each day, the participants were gathered …

  22.03.2019

• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …slated into reality. Earning comparisons with the likes of Black Mirror and The Animatrix, Love, Death & Robots is now carried by the streaming giant Netflix. “We’ve been wanting to do an animation anthology for ten years at least, and trying to do that all this time. For one, we’ve tried to do another Heavy Metal film (a 1981 adult animated sci-fi-fantasy direc…

  21.03.2019

• What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?

  …go to brighten up their mood, and which places are best avoided and why. “Emotions can show locations that inspire happiness, as well as derelict spaces that people don’t want to visit or a completely indifferent to. For example, our data shows that the most “emotional” location in St. Petersburg is the island where New Holland is located. What’s more, urban sci…

  20.03.2019

• Six Tips to Help You Navigate in Russia

  …ill ask you for that 25. Tip 5: Watch your step. This advice is mostly for icy weather, but actually I fell over when it was dry… so watch where you’re going. Sometimes you want to take in the scenery and look around, sometimes you’re desperately attempting to respond to messages on your phone, but the best thing for you to do is to watch where you’re going. If th…

  20.03.2019

• Winter Universiade Participant Vadim Shvedov on Maths and Curling

  … the Student League in curling, which is a championship between students from all over Russia. It was possible to participate as part of one’s university team, but ITMO didn’t want to form a curling team, so we decided to gather a regional one. That time, we came in second, and this year, we were first. We also learned that only two teams will take part in the select…

  19.03.2019

• Science Communicator Daria Dvorzhitskaya on How to Measure the Effectiveness of Science Pop Events

  …rong interest in the topic. But how do we diversify that audience? And does it need to be diversified in the first place? These are very important questions. To that end, I want to form an understanding of social and economic barriers that could be standing between CERN and its audience. These findings will be of use to different scientific organizations, such as …

  19.03.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Starting Out

  …shu prosheniya) literally means “I beg your pardon” and apart from a very polite way of saying that you’re sorry, it’s also good for getting someone’s attention, like when you want to order something, inquire for information or even get through a thick crowd of people without getting much physical contact. Basically, it’s a real lifesaver in just any kind of a situat…

  18.03.2019