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• ITMO University in Top Group of Project 5-100 Participants

  …racting international students, however it’s not only the quantity that matters, but the quality as well, as a high level of students’ education will allow the university to attain the reputation of a successful educational and research center whose graduates are competitive in the labor market both in Russia and abroad. The session of the Council on Competiti…

  06.11.2018

• VR and the Future of Digital Art: The Fourth International Animation Assembly in St. Petersburg

  …ity and tech. “ITMO is an interdisciplinary university, and one of our main development vectors are interdisciplinary projects that combine IT with culture, arts and entertainment. We work on interface design technologies, especially in the fields of VR and AR, and find new applications for them. And, of course, we’re happy to work with artists and inspire them,…

  06.11.2018

• ITMO Graduate Anastasia Svarovskaya on Promoting Space Science

  …ame very popular. I believe that Elon Musk also contributed to it: people stopped dreaming, became focused on everyday routine, while he showed that you have to dream and attain your goals. Nevertheless, there's a downside to this tendency, as well. We science communicators often discuss these issues: for one, space as a topic is now being used to promote m…

  06.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: Studio Ghibli, Nuff Said

  …the day and rethinking her Bridget Jones-y life around, to boot. A thoroughly likable movie which ticks all the boxes and makes for some light but oh-so-enjoyable dose of entertainment if the 'subdued and contemplative' Only Yesterday proved a bit too much of a good thing. From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) Directed by Mr. Miyazaki's son Goro and scripted by the grea…

  02.11.2018

• Physicists Design Next-Gen Antenna for Supersensitive Magnetic Field Detectors

  …with defects. Nanodiamonds are carbon nanostructures with a high refractive index and high thermal conductivity which almost do not interact with other substances. They may contain complex defects of the internal structure, such as Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. “Such defects may be created artificially: when a carbon atom is removed from the diamond's cryst…

  02.11.2018

• State Hermitage Photographer Yuri Molodkovets on Running an Instagram for World-Famous Museum

  …. Giving new knowledge is also among museums’ important functions. In this sense, the Hermitage is not just a collection of masterpieces, but also a whole encyclopedia that contains information about the world's different cultures. Top content I see the Hermitage's Instagram account as some kind of living history: I know the museum, I look at the people who go …

  02.11.2018

• What Future Does Climate Change Spell for St. Petersburg?

  … to materials used for roofing, the large amount of dust and a bigger rate of energy consumption. The team also looked into the city’s mortality rate. They were unable to obtain the mortality rate data for St. Petersburg and thus resorted to using data for Helsinki, a city in the same geographical area, but with a lesser total area and lower pollution level. There…

  01.11.2018

• Ghent University Professor: Every Patient Should Have Their Own Heart Model

  … myriad of cells. For example, genetic scientists can examine a group of people who most often die from arrhythmia. But what they do is they search for a mutation in certain genes, which doesn’t explain why people die from this disease. To solve this problem, we have to approach this question from a broader perspective and study not a single cell but the whole…

  01.11.2018

• What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer: Oncologist Explains

  …er, some specific risk-factors have been identified. First of all, it should be noted that breast cancer is a hormone-sensitive cancer, which means that higher levels of certain hormones can stimulate tumor growth. Scientists believe that taking birth control pills for a long time (more than eight years) can increase breast cancer risk by 35%. Other potential risk…

  31.10.2018

• Scientists' New Image And Academic Mobility: Professor Pavel Belov's Take on Modern Science

  … international teams. The skills and competencies necessary for a project are often taken from different places, for example, it may involve numerical techniques from Great Britain, equipment from Australia, ideas from Russia and so on. Such an approach to science differs greatly from the "iron curtain" that existed in Russian science d…

  31.10.2018