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• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  …ed the walls’ texture and developed an algorithm to apply them to a model. The results of this work can now be seen on the project’s website in the “Visualizations” section” – shares Artem Smolin. High-definition texture maps were made by hand for some of the objects in the complex using existing photographs. To optimize efficiency, the engineers made smaller co…

  30.05.2017

• Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar

  …ics there, which I enjoyed. I’m also interested in other things, like, for example, I want to confirm the existence of rare sea creatures. There’s an animal called a megamouth shark, its maw is the size of this table. I’ve read in a book that a long-tailed creature was spotted near some islands. Nobody knows what it was, but they all claim it was a megamouth

  29.05.2017

• Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau

  … start to accept the concept that universities will be the centers responsible for the city's competitive position. And that is what we are planning to continue to work with," shares Nina Yanikina. Nina Yanikina The Team for St. Petersburg's Spatial Development (led by Anton Finogenov, civic planner, urban science expert, specialist on spatial planning and pr…

  27.05.2017

• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

  … that make clothing for children with disabilities, but they don't take the children's tastes in style into account. We, on the other hand, aim to combine comfort and beauty," shares Polina Andreeva. In Yagodnoe, the project's authors got to meet other participants, exchange experience, get feedback and advice from experts. In future, Polina and Valeria plan to …

  26.05.2017

• Why Google Loves Kotlin and Who Needs 2000 Programming Languages

  …the development of Kotlin. As part of Android’s “mission”, it is important that Kotlin’s authors help create a community of people who use the language professionally and love sharing their experience. For instance, in November the Kotlin conference will be held in San Francisco; developers are also able to receive daily news and tips on the software and set up local…

  25.05.2017

• i-Customs: Wieslaw Czyzowicz On Shifts in Customs Legislation Paradigms

• Art&Science: How Big Data Becomes Art

  …s with a quiet signal, then fixed six hydrophones on the lake's shores and used them to trace them. When we put the fish back into the lake, we could see them on the monitor," shares Julia Freeman. Julia Freeman The experts got different information from this experiment - places where the fish swim, as well as some regularities in their behavior: some gathere…

  24.05.2017

• The Recent Nanophotonics and Metamaterials International Doctoral Summer School - Participants' Impressions

  …ons. To my mind, the lectures were great as well - they had great structure: the speakers started with the fundamentals, then there were the introductions, and then scientists shared their own results.   Yoakvin Faneka, PhD student for the University of Exeter (Great Britain) Yoakvin Faneka I chose to do my PhD in the field of nanophotonics and metamateri…

  23.05.2017

• The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives

• Science Without Borders: The IV International i-Customs Conference

  …with the latest tendencies of education and research. Thanks to that, we got a lot of new information, and we will be glad to collaborate with Russian students in the future," share Anna Prianichnikova and Niki Pleser from the Lapland University of Applied Sciences. Anzelika Krastina, Head of the Lapland University of Applied Sciences' International Relations Of…

  22.05.2017