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• Sparkle and Shine: Five Holidays to Celebrate at Home This December

  …ck-me-up during those increasingly cold and gloomy winter days. So you bake lussekatter (or saffron buns, here’s a recipe to try), you choose someone to be your Lucy (no gender restrictions!), you dress them in white, put a crown of candles (or fairy lights) on their head, and you sing the traditional songs! Traditionally, you also drink glögg, or mulled wine, and he…

  11.12.2020

• A Necklace of Resonators: How Scientists Efficiently Control Light in Nanoscale

  …demonstrated can be built on silicon,” concludes Mihail Petrov. “Nanoresonators can be etched on the same integral platform as the electronic system – and all the necessary interconnections can be created on that same chip.” In the future, this may lead to cheaper and simpler devices meant for transferring optical signals into electronic ones and vice versa.  …

  11.12.2020

• How To Look for Trustworthy Medical Information Online

  …on social media, so it’s hard to look for it. However, there are several sources that provide great analysis of medical data supported by reliable sources: for example, the medical section of Meduza and the Namochi Mantu Telegram channel. You can find other trustworthy medical sources through keywords on this channel, too. Can we trust blogs run by doctors? Ar…

  10.12.2020

• Researcher Daria Martynova on the Connection Between Art and Medicine

  …Her research field lies at the intersection of historical, technological, art, and even biological and medical sciences. While this term may be still a novelty in Russia, Western scientists actively study medical humanities – the general name for research of medical phenomena using the methods of the humanities. Daria is also one of the authors of the Navigating S…

  09.12.2020

• NTI FoodNet: How Food Science and New Technologies Can Save the Planet

  … of demand even before its expiry date also poses a challenge for both the economy and the environment.  All of that leads experts to gradually reconsider the process of food production. The concept of FoodNet is coming to replace the idea of separate branches of economy, such as agroindustry, logistics, trade, and the food service industry. FoodNet brings them al…

  09.12.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers

  …ed emission has different characteristics than the amplified luminescence: it is more ordered, coherent, its energy nonlinearly depends on the pump energy, and it has a preferred direction. The final proof was that the emission was linearly polarized. “If you take a thin film of dye molecules and study its fluorescence, you will find that it is not polarized. If…

  08.12.2020

• ITMO Students and Staff Can Now Read E-Books For Free via LitRes

  …ed automatically in two weeks.  “Once a student or a lecturer from ITMO University joins LitRes Library through our website, they can borrow a book that isn’t a part of the collection. In this case, ITMO Library will purchase it and then all ITMO students and staff will be able to read it, too,” comments Maria Topunova, deputy head of ITMO library. New …

  08.12.2020

• A Breath of Fresh Air in Science: ITMO Graduate on Finding Herself in Science, Interdisciplinarity and Bioinformatics

  … therapist then uses this data to find a new angle on the problem – in this particular case and for the illness generally. That’s why bioinformatics specialists work at the intersection of many disciplines to analyse a problem and then interpret this analysis to therapists. This is highly in demand in contemporary healthcare – which is evidenced by the emergence o…

  08.12.2020

• Picture of the Week: Spinneret of Linothele Fallax Spider

• In Search of Phantom: Regular Graphite and PVC to Help Diagnose Oncological Diseases

  …t. The scientists asked their Finnish colleagues to prepare two samples: with 10% and 12.5% graphite in PVC. They placed the materials under terahertz emission and checked their refraction index and absorptance. Then they checked several models of effective media and chose the one that suited the most: the Bruggeman's model, which made it possible to tell which refra…

  07.12.2020