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• New Year’s Done Right: Brainy Books and Movies to Check Out This Holiday Season

  …Books Liquid Rules, by Mark Miodownik Materials scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik provides insights into the amazing, mysterious, and unexpected properties of the well-known liquids that surround us. Kerosene, liquid soap, coffee, tea, alcohol, cleaning liquid, saliva, nitroglycerin, glue, and sauce – all these liquids are ever-present in our daily lives…

  03.01.2020

• Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays

  …ue Russian.  Charodei (Sorcerers) Written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, this is a love story, based on their best-selling book Monday begins on Saturday and set in the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services (a Hogwarts-like institution, if Hogwarts was based in the Soviet Union and offered a career in magical scie

  03.01.2020

• Quantum Computers, Time Crystals, and Artificial Cells: 2019 in Science

  …nt of view, it might well be the first step to fighting life-threatening diseases.  One other milestone for me is ITMO getting into international rankings for materials science and physics. We have been working so hard to get there! On the one hand, it makes perfect sense for the employees and researchers, but on the other – it is still astonishing.  Ekater…

  30.12.2019

• ITMO University Researchers Organize Symposium on Terahertz Photonics in Paris

  …the second time, SNAIA2019 is a conference revolving around the topic of smart nanomaterials. This year’s venue was Chimie ParisTech, an engineering school of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Research University. This is a research that hosts ten laboratories conducting research in different fields of chemistry. Fittingly, the school’s location since the 19…

  26.12.2019

• ITMO University Professor Oleg Stepanov Elected a Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences

  …r consent to be nominated, a CV, as well as an information statement about the candidate and the conclusion of the academic council with a brief description of the candidate’s scientific achievements. All these documents are submitted to the Academy. Participating in the election are all the participants of the meeting. To win, you need to get at least two-thirds …

  26.12.2019

• Harvard Medical School Professor Peter Kharchenko: Using Statistics To Understand How Cells Work

  …eaction to treatment. The other half of our projects is tissue mapping. Here, we mostly work with the brain.  You got your Bachelor’s in Physics, then went into Computer Science and eventually received your PhD in Biophysics. And judging by the tasks covered by your lab, any of your researchers needs to be a biologist and a physicist with good programming skill…

  25.12.2019

• A Series of Workshops on ITMO Highpark’s Ecosystem Kicks Off in St. Petersburg

  …ITMO Highpark is designed to become a place where scientific achievements will turn into business projects and researchers will be engaged in constant dialog with engineers and entrepreneurs. According to the authors of the project, it has to become a symbol of modernity and technological progress. In line with this, the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Pro…

  25.12.2019

• Bones and All: ITMO’s Food Biotechnologies Researchers Propose New Zero-Waste Fish Consumption Technologies

  …amari, and mussels. Nevertheless, fishing and aquaculture, or fish farming, are massively wasteful, reducing the industry’s profitability and inflicting environmental harm. Scientists around the globe are looking for ways to improve the usage rate of fish products, and that includes the staff of ITMO University’s Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering. Pr…

  24.12.2019

• Our Editorial Team's Best of 2019

  … to start speaking Russian, how to talk to students in their own language, how to describe your feelings when Russian winter freezes you up and even how to say something using science.  Unexplored St. Petersburg St. Petersburg is a wonderful city and the best thing about it is that there’s always something to explore. This year. our team shared with you som…

  24.12.2019

• Flu Vaccine and Lung Cancer Medication Developed by ITMO Technopark’s Resident Awarded Gold Medals at the iENA 2019 Exhibition in Germany

  …n. According to the developers, it doesn’t cause any side effects. “Our vaccine protects against the majority of known flu strains,” shares Ilya Dukhovlinov, Director for Science at ATG Service Gene. “What is also important is that it doesn’t require seasonal immunization as it doesn’t contain the virus pathogen itself and instead consists of proteins that accom…

  23.12.2019