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• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

  …e-grown plants don’t produce crops. There’s also a question of whether a rocket can repeat its flight from Mars to Earth. The problem is that after its first use the rocket sustains so much damage that it needs to go through considerable maintenance before it can be flown back to Earth. But how will we fix rockets on Mars? Musk is too busy with his other ventures to …

  07.08.2018

• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science

  …tor changes in the environment, as well as help researchers gather associated data by sending it via a smartphone app. Each post made by volunteers is synchronized with data obtained by climate scientists and checked against the observations from NASA satellites. In bulk, this information helps draw up a common picture that allows for monitoring climate trends…

  06.08.2018

• Science Communicator Fred Balvert: 'For a Journalist, Geniuine Interest Matters More Than Knowledge'

  …forget, that it is often the same story in Europe, although we started earlier. It is sometimes hard to work with researchers, and it always will demand a lot of effort to maintain a good relationship. Scientists may be afraid that the journalists are inexperienced and will make mistakes in reporting on their research. Even if a scientist and a journalist are interac…

  06.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 4-5

  …Art is hosting a snazzy cinematic fete in honor of its tenth anniversary. Held on the New Holland island, the Garage Screen Film Festival aims to give its spectators both entertainment and some food for thought, displaying an array of essay-like movie reflections on modern art, culture, and society. This weekend’s program includes Saturday’s Dawson City: Frozen Time,…

  01.08.2018

• Computer Science And The World Football Cup: ESIEE Students on Their Internship at ITMO

  …pportunity to do things that we can’t do in real life. In the past years, the range of applications VR technologies has only been increasing, ranging from video games and entertainment industry to medicine and defense industry, where VR is used to create complex simulations. Virtual reality technologies have made their way into data management, as well. 3D visualizat…

  01.08.2018

• Study Reveals The Great Pyramid of Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy

  …ps to estimate which part of the incident wave energy can be scattered or absorbed by the pyramid under resonant conditions. Finally, for the same conditions, the scientists obtained the electromagnetic fields distribution inside the pyramid. In order to explain the results, the scientists conducted a multipole analysis. This method is widely used in physics t…

  30.07.2018

• St. Petersburg Hosts 4th VK Fest

  …n the previous years, the festival’s program included more than a dozen themed zones: Music, Blogging, Technology, Creativity, Sports, Kids, Beauty, Fashion, Food, Humor, Entertainment, Cosplay, Videogaming, Communities, and Cars. Several music stages hosted popular performers and relative newcomers. As for sports, visitors at the festival could ride bikes, play t…

  30.07.2018

• VK Fest: Hi-Tech Entertainment, VR Gaming and ITMO Zone

  …he future suits them most, and representatives of ITMO’s admission committee consulted prospective students to help them choose a program that suits them best. Hi-tech entertainment Having decided upon your future career, why not try the most high-tech entertainment? ITMO University zone offered the festival’s guests to play a VR …

  29.07.2018

• Movie Fridays: Out With The New, In With The Old

  …ackdrop of Soviet-American nuclear tensions, Godzilla’s intelligent concept for sure tickled the nerves of the Cold War-era cinema-goers. Take this storyline and the certain Japanese je ne sais quoi away, and you have a yawn-inducing tale about a dinosaur who decided to take a little stroll before (or rather, during) its dinner, which was so characteristic of …

  27.07.2018

• ITMO Young Scientists Win BASIS Foundation Grants For Physics and Maths Research

  …y that two surfaces are “topologically equivalent”. This means that by constantly deforming one of these surfaces, we can create a copy of the other. This doesn’t work with certain surfaces: for example, a sphere and a torus would not be topologically equivalent. This concept is applicable to physics, as well. For example, the topology of photonic bands is a source o…

  26.07.2018