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"Patient Sapiens: a Guide to Herbs and Pills": Journalist Andrei Vodovozov on Medicine, Cannabis and Puppies
…less, a keen reader will notice many understatements. For instance, in particular studies, patients who started to feel bad or ask for the drug too often were excluded. From a scientific standpoint, something like this is simply a ruse. Surely, there are already drugs that contain THC. But those are used in particularly rare cases only. For example, to treat anore…
06.02.2019
ITMO VK Competition for School Students
…arch 10, followed by the second, which will be held at ITMO University on April 5-7. The competition extends across six disciplines such as math, physics, chemistry, social science, English, and computer science. In the first round, you’re given an hour to perform all tasks in each subject, but you can pick as many disciplines as you…
06.02.2019
Getting to Know Russian Literature, Part 2: the 20th Century
…ost of these authors were first printed in the West, and it’s quite easy to find their works in English. Soviet sci-fi A most peculiar part of the Soviet-era literature, science fiction offered authors an opportunity to speak one’s mind more openly, and was more liberal, to a particular degree. Also, many Soviet sci-fi writers focused on the more philosophical …
05.02.2019
Falcon Heavy Launch, Cancer Treatment, and Neutrinos: Top Science News of 2018
…Alexander Khokhlov, a space instrumentation engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, the President of the Youth Section of the North-West division of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation One of the major highlights of the last year was the Falcon Heavy launch, which took place almost a year ago, on February 6, 2018. Th…
05.02.2019
Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO
…m. I am a graduate of the University of Liège: in my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees I majored in modern history, which I followed with another Master’s degree in political science. After completing my studies, I went on an internship at the Belgian embassy in Lebanon. This was a good starting point for me: because it was such a small embassy, I didn’t just have t…
05.02.2019
International Year of Periodic Table Proclaimed Open in Paris
…Participants of the IYPT 2019 opening ceremony included UNESCO’s Director-General Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kotyukov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev, Director-General for Research and Innovation at the Ministry for Higher Education and Resea…
04.02.2019
Russian Scientists Conduct Research on European XFEL
…esearch center in Hamburg to the town of Schenefeld, where the experimental stations, laboratories, and administrative buildings are located. In 2015, the Transnational Scientific and Education UniFEL Center for Advanced Methods of Materials Research was founded at ITMO University in collaboration with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (TU Berga…
04.02.2019
Sweet Ways to Treat a Cold
ITMO University Scientists Create Cancer Treatment Nanomachines
…ar from perfect. Oftentimes, the agents fail to discern malignant cells from healthy ones, and are bad at interacting with folded RNA targets. In order to solve this issue, scientists, including a Russian team from ITMO University headed by professor Dmitry Kolpashchikov, proposed special nanomachines. Their operation principle is based on using particular molecul…
04.02.2019
Webometrics-2018: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities
…points (for a total of 606), Excellence – by 2 (for a total of 907). The most notable improvement concerns the Openness indicator, where changes in methodology meant that more scientific articles have been included in the count, increasing ITMO’s number of Google Scholar citations by 10,114. Among the world’s top-1000 according to Webometrics are ten Russian unive…
04.02.2019