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What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer: Oncologist Explains
…endorse a magnetic resonance tomography of mammary glands. If the tumor progresses due to a genetic mutation, it is possible that a patient would be recommended a preventative mastectomy, but this is only because genetics-caused tumors are the most aggressive. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for …
31.10.2018
Scientists' New Image And Academic Mobility: Professor Pavel Belov's Take on Modern Science
…ility. You can't get the necessary qualification while staying at one place only, be it in Russia, Great Britain or the USA. On different stages of your education (Bachelor's, Master's, PhD and so on), you have to go to different places and get different experience. In Finland, they even forbid staying to work at the same university for two years after you've had you…
31.10.2018
Spooky, Scary, and Bizarre: Villains and Miscreants of Russian Folklore
…sappearing; the stain usually hides an entrance to a dark and scary room, but sometimes it's just the tip of the head of someone trapped in the cellar. The Black Tulip is a masquerade costume that is both cheap and beautiful. Still, if you ever buy it, the real Black Tulip will come to your house and eat everything there is (you and your parents included) unless y…
30.10.2018
ITMO Student Talks Urban Development in Northern Cities
… conveyor belt. All the main solutions are already there: all we need to do is invite specialists and let them do their job. There’s no need in inventing something or spending massive sums of money on research and development. If the practices are there, you just take them on board. It’s not expensive. It’s only in the developing countries that people concern them…
30.10.2018
Universities of 5-100 Russian Academic Excellence Project Share Plans for 2020 and Beyond
…urial culture, creative technologies, critical, analytical and systems thinking, and soft skills. This year also marks the launch of several new interdisciplinary programs for Master’s students: Art&Science, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Cognitive Technologies and Quantum Intelligence, and Molecular Sensing and Biorobotics. “Balance becomes a growth driver…
29.10.2018
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Tauride Palace Orangery
… the greenery, once you notice the full picture, everything seems so out of place that it really startles you. It’s somewhat similar to the feeling you get from French 70’s dramas: a surreal calm that makes you look at everything from a different angle, as if you’ve become as alien to your life as tropical plants are to the Russian North. You might not believe it, bu…
26.10.2018
15 Popular Science Cartoons on Anything and Everything
…ey introduce the viewer the viewer to the powerful forces sleeping in the atom. If you’ve ever read Perelman’s Physics for Entertainment, you’ll definitely like this short! Masters of Lightning Masters of Lightning speaks about electricity, the laws of thermodynamics, and power industry. This is the first cartoon from the Tale…
26.10.2018
Twenty-Five Hours in a Day
…ulsory classes, there is a list of optional courses you have to choose from at the beginning of each semester. Even though French was the main language at the university, many Master’s courses were taught in English which made life much easier for me. It wasn’t easy to study though. Students don't usually work during term time abroad and can devote all their time …
25.10.2018
Coining It: ITMO University and Bank Saint Petersburg Develop Ways to Forecast Clients Spending Patterns
Clarivate Analytics Expert Shares International Academic Collaboration Insights
…nals and conferences. If we were to try and determine the world’s most cited author simply using the entire database, we would most likely fail. The amount of data is just too massive. But if we were to take the top 1% of all publications, which is some 20,000 out of every year’s 2 million, this becomes a much more realistic task. When the list is published, v…
25.10.2018