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• This Week in St. Petersburg: August 28 - September 3, 2025

  The academic year starts next week! We know, summer seems to have just flown by, so let’s see it off in style and then get ready for the excitement of September. On the menu this week are concerts, international festivals, garage sails, and interesting exhibitions. Let’s go!

  27.08.2025

• 1,000+ Participants From 37 Countries: ITMO Hosts Its First International School in AI and Gamedev

  Disruptive Unicorn Lab (DU Lab), an international online summer school by ITMO University, drew over 1,100 students from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the CIS countries. Within two weeks, participants generated ideas for technological startups, studied the fundamentals of gamedev and business logic, learned how to apply AI for products, prepared their applications for international accelerators, and looked into the work of international startup ecosystems. Among the school’s mentors were experts from China, Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and other countries.

  27.08.2025

• ITMO's Monday Science Roundup #86

  Our latest science digest was quite a struggle to compile… because there’s just too much to report! From fantastically-sounding biotech research to the essentials of Russian sci-fi, from high-speed space communications to rapidly-growing megapolises – here are the top stories from the past two weeks at ITMO.NEWS.

  25.08.2025

• GEROPHARM and ITMO Test New Treatment for Blood Disease

  Public health scientists from ITMO, in collaboration with the biotech company GEROPHARM and other Russian colleagues, have recently completed the third testing stage of a new medicine for patients with immune thrombocytopenia. In this condition, the body mistakenly destroys its own thrombocytes. The new treatment is described in a paper published in eJHaem.

  22.08.2025

• City of Superlatives: Largest Sites in St. Petersburg

  Welcome to the next installment of our series where we explore St. Petersburg through its extremes. We’ve finally made it to the episode about the city’s most prominent, hard-to-miss landmarks, so get ready to be impressed! 

  22.08.2025

• “Combing” Light: ITMO Researchers Find Reliable and Fast Way to Transmit Data in Space

  A team of Russian scientists has suggested a simple way to increase the capacity and reliability of free-space optical communication. This is done by controlling the structure and composition of a “comb” made from vortex laser beams, with each beam functioning as a separate data transmission channel. The corresponding study was published in Nano Letters.

  21.08.2025

• 4 Russian Sci-Fi Film Classics You Should See

  Looking to put something unusual on your watchlist? Well, how about exploring a century’s worth of Russian sci-fi cinema? These four film classics, spanning from the silent era to the modern period, are a great entry point to the unique flavor of Soviet and Russian science fiction.

  19.08.2025

• ITMO Team Takes Gold at RobotChallenge 2025

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab became the winner of the international RobotChallenge 2025 – their robotic saxophonist Fantastic Robby Brown became the best in the creative category FreeStyle Senior. This year’s RobotChallenge in Beijing brought together over 5,000 participants from 42 countries.

  19.08.2025

• ITMO Launches Second Season of Scientific St. Petersburg Project

  ITMO’s Center for Science Communication has announced the start of the second season of the Scientific St. Petersburg project. Before the end of 2025, the team will implement over 13 popular science initiatives, from lectures to media projects and from VR tours to crash courses on AI tools. The experts invite St. Petersburg citizens to look at the role of science in the urban environment under a new perspective and become part of interdisciplinary studies.

  14.08.2025

• ITMO Scientists Develop New Cheap and Quick Way to Produce Green Hydrogen

  A team of researchers from ITMO have designed a new type of reactor that can quickly produce affordable green hydrogen. The technology uses magnets and nanoparticles to accelerate sixfold the process of water decomposition into hydrogen and oxygen, all while requiring 15% less energy than conventional methods. The lab-assembled reactor prototype is now ready for industrial testing. The resulting paper was published in Chemical Engineering Journal.

  13.08.2025