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• Youth Foresight Festival Tackles Future of Transportation

  … In the second part of the festival’s opening, there was a panel discussion on the prospects of development of transport and transport infrastructure. A fascinating dialogue between the participants of the festival, scientists and representatives of the business environment made it possible to briefly look into the future of St. Petersburg. Leading the discussion wa…

  21.09.2017

• How Music Affects Our Brain

  …ts while the latter listened to music; some of them were these “anti-melomaniacs”. It turns out that when these people listen to music, no connection is formed in their brain between the region responsible for processing sound and the brain’s reward center. At the same time, other stimulating activities, such as winning in games of chance, still causes them to experi…

  20.09.2017

• Forester Soon to Hit the World Robot Olympiad in Costa Rica

  …got to the Russian competition, Forester could already walk. By the time it gets to the international exhibition, it’ll already have “brains”. "The boys created a neural network for the robot, with which it can identify tree species. Earlier, we used more primitive and unreliable methods. We’ve already improved the construction of the model, and sorted out all t…

  20.09.2017

• Anna Krongauz, Editor of Popular Science Website N+1 On Science Writing And New Ethics

  …ng. It's great when there's something more in your life apart from stress, a place where all the news is good ones. Lecture at the Open University Is there any relation between the growing interest in science and the overall increase in the level of education? That would be great, though I don't think there is any. It is just that now, many scientific phenom…

  15.09.2017

• Baltic Weekend 2017: Why Creators Will Always Be In Business

  …some processes that don't require creativity - for instance, form mailouts based on data from the Internet. Yet, even such monotonous work as e-mailouts will not go to neural networks. "PR specialists feared that robots will replace them, and social networks will take all the profits from advertising. Well, they were right to f…

  14.09.2017

• Exchange Programs: General Advice and Life-Hacks From Recent Participants

  …universities are chosen to conduct exchange programs with. What about expenses? You'll have to spend quite a lot on accommodation; most likely, you'll be given a choice between a place in the dorms or a student apartment. In some of Finland's universities, the rent is included in the cost of the program, but in most cases you'll have to pay for it yourself. Sti…

  14.09.2017

• Blockchain for Patenting Intellectual Property: How Will it Work?

  … patent databases, evaluate the novelty of the invention, and its applicability to industry. Since the patent takes quite a long time, and the market can’t wait, contracts between buyers and inventors often don’t have the correct legal work, contracts aren’t declared anywhere, people don’t find out about new technologies easily or never find out at all. In fact ma…

  13.09.2017

• Art, Love and Depression: How Your Brain Controls Your Life

  … quite literally, dissolving a brain in a special solution and counting the number of neurons. Those are connected by special projections – axons and dendrites. A small space between them – the so-called synaptic gap – is where neutrons interact with each other. Ilya Martynov Axons serve as signal outputs for nerve cells. If a neuron is not excited enough, in…

  13.09.2017

• Relocation Tips: Perks of Student Life in St. Petersburg (Part 1)

  …” business centre, room 404. An ISIC card’s period of validity always begins in September of the current year and lasts until the next December; e.g. a card that was received between 01.09.2017 and 31.08.2018 will last until 31.12.2018. You can find the list of global discounts on ISIC’s international website in English; you can also find a complete list of Russia…

  12.09.2017

• How IT Technology Saves Lives

  …re 6 to 8 times higher than the norm. Other peaks occur in May and November holiday seasons. At the Almazov Medical Research Center Several years ago, a collaboration between Almazov Center, ITMO University and Yandex took place. The latter provided servers, which, over the course of a week, analyzed the time of patients’ arrival from 250 areas of the city to…

  12.09.2017