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• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

  …ng the technology of growing entire organs from stem cells can lead to a major breakthrough in medicine – two years ago, British scientists successfully used this method to create functioning kidney tissue.  But for growing tissues from stem cells to become a usual practice, scientists need to solve several important problems, one of which is effective management …

  27.07.2020

• ITMO University’s Work Schedule for July 26 – August 16

  … accounting officer, heads of Informatization Department and Information Security and Access Department, as well as other staff members whose presence at ITMO is essential for its functioning. All other staff members who can work remotely without hindering their units’ operation will continue to do so.  If the work format needs to be changed, vice rectors and h…

  27.07.2020

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  … The problem is that chemophobia, unlike other widespread phobias such as the fear of spiders or the fear of flying, isn’t as obvious and pronounced. Most often, it manifests as rejection of processed foods in favor of natural ones marked with “eco” or “farm-made” – which can look like a regular concern for one’s health – or rejection …

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …t holds us back is money. While it’s true that you do need a lot of it, there is another crucial problem: as of now, we aren’t able to live away from Earth. It’s hard to imagine a functioning industry on another planet. Food and water would likely be stored, not produced. If we really want to live on other planets, then being a mere colony of Earth is not enough. …

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …bserving social and bureaucratic institutes (including education, army, police, and so on), he noticed that the implementation of any criteria or indicators according to which the functioning of an institute was being evaluated unavoidably distorted both the indicators and processes in question. Even though more than 40 years went by and management tools were most…

  23.07.2020

• Evolutionary Computations Explained in 9 Simple Questions

  …ime regardless of the methods used. Evolutionary algorithms bring us closer to the optimal solution. And, as a rule, the more time you give an algorithm, the closer it’ll get to perfection. In practice, there are usually specific requirements set: for instance, a solution’s fitness must be above a certain value. If the results aren’t satisfying, we can run the algori…

  23.07.2020

• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

  …Russian) Thinking (in Russian) (You can follow the links in order to find out what those modules are all about.) Even though these educational modules have been functioning for two years, we still need to constantly edit and develop them in order to provide students with the best possible education. What is more valuable for improvement than feedba…

  22.07.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …n option. We even delivered some boxes to their St. Petersburg addresses by ourselves. But at the end of the day, we’re happy with how everything panned out. And the participants’ reaction was priceless: they were really surprised that what we sent them wasn’t just merch, but entire home labs, and even recorded videos about it,” says Polina Khapaeva, a coordinator of…

  22.07.2020

• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  … get married, but one of the partners wished to remain childless and was anxious to announce it to the other. There were two alternative versions of the story – with two different reactions of the second partner to this unexpected piece of news (they either agreed or disagreed on the matter). The participants were then told that the couple either married or decided t…

  21.07.2020

• Scientists Suggest Using Gold Nanoparticle Metasurfaces to Determine Substance Molecular Composition

  …orbing a certain amount of energy while they’re at it. As a result, the outcoming energy will be less. The frequency at which the energy was absorbed, can be used to determine the functional atomic groups a molecule consists of. Then, a ‘molecular ID’ could be created that can then be used by a detector as it determines the kind of substance it was presented with.” …

  21.07.2020