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• Eco-Horror: What It Is and Why We Love To Fear It

  … from sci-fi to monster flicks. Today, we’ll be using the latter definition to show off the full breadth of what eco-horror has to offer. Expert opinion For a scientific insight into the genre, we’ve reached out to Irina Timofeeva – an ecologist, biodiversity expert, and senior lecturer at ITMO’s Faculty of Ecotechnologies: – Eco-horror takes our environment…

  30.09.2025

• Butterfly Effect: ITMO Researchers Create Colorful Perovskite Films for Optoelectronics

  …device components, as they are less prone to defects. An important step in producing nanoelectronic devices is often the nanostructuring of semiconductor films. It can, for instance, improve the semiconductor properties of materials or their photoabsorption. One of the most common methods for nanostructuring perovskites is ion beam etching, which involves removing…

  29.09.2025

• Chilean Researcher Ivan Martinez – on “Serious Russians,” Loving Chemistry, and Traveling for Science

  …niversities. So, in the last year of high school it’s common for students to prepare for this exam in addition to their regular school classes by taking courses at specialized institutions. It was in one of these places that I met an excellent chemistry teacher who helped me awaken my interest in this wonderful science. As a result, I enrolled at the Faculty of Chemi…

  26.09.2025

• Discovery of the Month: Autumn Zen, Cyber-Perestroika, and More

• ITMO Scientists Increase Sensitivity of Levitating Particle Sensors

  …em’s sensitivity. In other words, a nano- or microparticle catches and reacts to the smallest external influences. A sensitivity this high is handy for all kinds of tests, for instance, for registering high-frequency gravitational waves or in meteorological studies. In recent years, levitating systems have been increasingly used in industry as compact, precise, and q…

  25.09.2025

• Student Spotlight: Omar Haj Muhammad, Syria

  … of it, and later I discovered “Remo” was an actual name of Latin origin, meaning “the rower.” It stuck with me ever since, and now everyone close to me calls me Remo. What inspired you to choose computer engineering for your Bachelor’s? Funnily enough, I didn’t always admire programmers. As a kid, I imagined them as gloomy people with no life outside their scr…

  25.09.2025

• AI Pharmacist: ITMO-Developed Algorithm Helps Produce New Efficient Antibiotics

  …acteria start to evolve and mutate and thus become drug resistant. To extend the life of antibiotics, scientists seek to produce medications that target several bacterial proteins at once; thus, when one protein changes, the drug can link to another and continue to fight the disease.  New antibiotics require new chemical compounds. As a rule, researchers opt for h…

  24.09.2025

• ITMO Scientists Design Model to Analyze Surfaces of All Sizes

  … it can provide answers for how riverbeds are formed, which tributaries they include, and where they take water from. The finding can also be beneficial for space studies; for instance, to compare craters on various space bodies and define how similar the impacts were.…

  23.09.2025

• Scientific Show, Lectures, and Lab Tours: Recap of Physics Day 2025 at ITMO

  …and Unified State Exam (USE) tests, get acquainted with ITMO’s physics-focused programs, and obtain admissions guidance. |s=1,center| Participants in the workshop by the Institute of Laser Technologies created paintings with lasers or laser brushes, as well as made mementos – pens, keychains, or popsockets – featuring laser engrav…

  23.09.2025

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #88

  … from AI in Development Study by ITMO and Yandex University If you thought we were done with AI news – think again! The latest addition to ITMO’s academic structure, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, is here to become a centerpoint for all things ML and LLM. The institute will bridge the competencies of other ITMO facultie…

  22.09.2025