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• Crossing Single-Celled Organisms With AI: ITMO’s Art & Science Students On Interdisciplinary Art Experiments

  …Tell us about your team, how did you all meet and start working together? We all study Art & Science. There was a moment in our program when we were supposed to work on our projects. All four of us were not really sure what we were doing next, so we decided to join forces and try to create something together. That’s how we completed our first project, Kitty, wh…

  25.03.2020

• A Tour of Testa Center, GE’s Biotech R&D Facility in Uppsala, Sweden

  …learn, they work with biotechnologies… As I wait to board my flight, I ruminate on this and look for information about my destination. It turns out that the GE Healthcare Life Science company founded the non-profit Testa Center in 2018 in collaboration with the Swedish government. Testa Center is an innovation center made up of four laboratories that create new bioph…

  24.03.2020

• Russian Scientists Propose New Approach to Measuring Atoms

  …ime they require grows as well - to the point that the solutions call for a great amount of time of supercomputers' operation.” Then again, today it is very important for scientists to know the energy of intermolecular interactions. This knowledge makes it possible to understand how molecules of drugs affect cells, or how new materials for organic electronics wo…

  24.03.2020

• ITMO University Team Takes Third Place in Bauman Robotics Club Tournament

  …, some were asking where we were going and for what. We told them about the competition and our robot.” Finally, the team reached the building of the Institute of Control Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was there, on the third floor in-between test-driving facilities, that the competition area was situated. The St. P…

  24.03.2020

• Everything You Wanted to Know About ITMO’s Master’s Programs in Biotechnology

  …Biotechnology is a field of science that studies the use of living microorganisms or products of their vital activity to solve a variety of technological problems, including those associated with food manufacturing. It’s based in the intersection of biology, chemistry, physics and engineering. Being such an interdisciplinary field, biotechnology is open to anyone wit…

  23.03.2020

• It’s All about Carboneum: How Carbon-Based Materials Help Create Efficient and Safe Solar Cells

  …er. Most often, it is organic molecules, polymers and metal oxides (of zinc, stannic, titan and others) that are used for these supplementary layers. But now, more and more scientists start using carbon nanomaterials for these purposes.  “What is the key advantage of carbon supplementary layers? They aren’t toxic and their synthesis is less labor-intensive; c…

  23.03.2020

• Online Weekend Plans: Courses, Sports and Virtual Museums for Those Staying at Home

  …in and cryptocurrency, photonics and quantum technology, robotics or survival technology. Moreover, Lektorium’s database has more than 5,000 lectures in Russian: from Computer Science to Ethnolinguistics. GeekBrains This platform specializes in programming and IT. Until March 31, everyone can pick three free courses from the list –  they mainly cover C++, Pytho…

  20.03.2020

• How to Choose a Profession in the Digital World

  …y people who pursue education in several fields are more successful in finding a job and getting promoted. Secondly, it doesn’t matter if you’re a programmer, a designer, a scientist, or an artist: everyone should develop their soft skills. That includes not only communication skills that help one work in a team, but also self-promotion skills. It’s not enough to …

  20.03.2020

• Aleksei Vodovozov on Pandemics: What Should We Expect?

  …ill concern everyone, and won’t go anywhere soon. Previously we could only guess how it happened, but today we have a hands-on example. In a sense, it’s an opportunity for the scientists to study the process carefully. The source of the new virus is considered to be a bat. It was determined by genome sequencing. There’s a 86% similarity with viruses carried by pan…

  19.03.2020

• Scientists from ITMO University Describe and Emulate New Quantum State of Entangled Photons

  …Quantum capabilities Light plays a key role in modern informational technologies: with its help, information can be transmitted over vast distances via optical fibers. Scientists anticipate the invention of optical chips and computers that process the information with the help of photons – light quanta – instead of electrons, as it is done today. This will decreas…

  19.03.2020