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• Analyzing Metagenome Helps Understand the Role of Bacterial Species in Crohn’s Disease

  …ystem to a person's own gut microbes, as well as an imbalance in gut microbiota. In order to study its development and find the methods of effective diagnostics and treatment, scientists research the role of bacteria in the pathologic process. Among the most promising approaches is metagenomic analysis of genetic material. A research team composed of scientists, penal labor placements of the prisoners of Moscow concentration camps and so on. You can look up the locations of the places where convicted scientist…

  23.01.2019

• Science Day at ITMO University

  …Program of the Conference The ITMO Open Science program has several sections, each with a different format and focus. The conference will start with a MegaBattle when the heads of all ITMO’s schools will share about their major achievements over the last year and talk about their departments’ science development strategies. MegaBattl…

  23.01.2019

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …cave to unearth the whole skeleton. It took researchers 23 years, from 1994 to December 2017, to excavate the bones, and the entire 2018 to describe it and publish a series of scientific articles with the descriptions of its skull, hands, legs, nose and other parts. According to some research, the skeleton belonged to prometheus, an extinct species of Australopithecu…

  22.01.2019

• Winter, Explained: Why Snow is White, Ice Slippery, and Snowflakes Unique

  …wo types: dendrites, or patterns with a branching tree-like structure, and trichites, or patterns with a star-like structure. Tracing the reasons why these emerge is no rocket science. If the air in a room is humid, and the temperature outside has hit a sub-zero mark, the excess humidity condenses itself on a windowpane. As the latter is cold, that vapor has no chanc…

  21.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …facing quite a lot of restrictions, and sometimes, you won't be able to do what you're really interested in. So, why exactly did you choose to continue your educational and scientific career in Russia? In China, completing your Master's program takes three years. One year goes to obtaining fundamental education. That allowed me to fulfill all of my educational …

  21.01.2019

• Scientists Propose a Fully Optical Method for Near-Field Reshaping and Enhancement in Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Oligomers

  …have been solved by specialists working in the field of plasmonics where different metal particles are used to control light. With the development of dielectric nanophotonics, scientists managed to overcome particular restrictions of plasmonics that had to do with losses on optical frequencies. Not so long ago, scientists have come up w…

  17.01.2019

• Master’s Student from Argentina: Immersing Into New Culture Is Like Starting New Life

  …d’s history. When the opportunity of going to Russia for studying emerged, he jumped at the chance and did his utmost to win a scholarship contest organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. He arrived in the country at the end of 2016, right in the thick of all the snow and cold. He recalls that he’d expected the climate t…

  17.01.2019

• School Students Launching Sputniks Into Space? No Big Deal Today, Says This Educator

  …nly manifest themselves after several successful launches. History of reusable systems Credits for the first ever design of a multi-use spacecraft goes to Nazi Germany’s scientists. Between 1932 and 1942, they developed an antipodal bomber Silbervogel, also known as the Silver Bird. At the heart of this idea authored by Eugen Sänger was a special mechanism of u…

  16.01.2019