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• Science Through the Eyes of a Child: What Makes Biology Interesting

  …nd substrate, and were shown how to grow mushrooms in an industrial environment; we even participated in a special workshop. They put mycelium in these huge sacks, where the spwan develops under specific conditions, and then the mushrooms appear through special holes made earlier. During our experiment, we grew mushrooms in our own home, and complied with all the …

  21.04.2017

• Feed the Bars!

  …that students pay for coffee for the Feed the Bars project. ITMO.STORE is also ready to support our initiatives, comments Evgenii Raskin. Yet, our main goal is more global: we want to draw attention to wildlife conservation problems. This is not only about animals, but protecting the environment in general. We believe that people have to know how much it costs, and t…

  20.04.2017

• VI Congress of Young Scientists: Students Share Their Stories

  …e to work in and why going abroad to continue one's scientific career is no longer relevant.   Vladislav Barselo, St. Petersburg's College of Information Technology I want to follow the IT field; presently, I work in software development. As for what I think of science, there's something that always attracted me: I believe that in the scientific community, t…

  19.04.2017

• ITMO’s Master’s Student Does Internship at Eindhoven University of Technology

  … in industry. “This is my first international internship, shares Elena Khramenkova. Studying in an international group was most interesting. Many of those who I worked with wanted to come study at ITMO University, or take part in its international projects.” In half a year, Anna Simagina, another staff member of the SCAMT Laboratory, will also go to do an inter…

  19.04.2017

• Robot Revolution: How Robotic Systems Change Our Lives

  …been successful ever since, yet it is now being surpassed by South Korea and Singapore, where there are 478 robots per 10,000 human employees now. Among the leaders is also Taiwan, where the electronic industry is highly developed. In China, the robot density is half the world's average at 33 robots per 10,000 employees. In Russia, this indicator is really low: 1-2 r…

  18.04.2017

• “YellowRockets:” How Russian Startupers Enter Global Markets

  …enture Company (RVC) – businessmen from the UK, USA, Israel and Switzerland as well as active Russian specialists took part. Our demo days constantly attract new people who want to invest in high-tech businesses. Three years ago we had 50 active members, now it is about 500 and over 20 thousand people who know us and are interested in our activity. The second t…

  18.04.2017

• Vadim Veiko: “Lasers Are Omnipotent”

  …. It is very nice when your job is appreciated. But in fact, to receive an award is not the goal we work for. Humans constantly move forward – if one has conquered a peak, one wants to conquer the next. Having conquered the highest one, he or she wants to follow the hardest way. How did you start your scientific career? Why did you c…

  17.04.2017

• Navigating the ITMO Application Process

  …7 a new program on “Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics” was opened in the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, aimed at strong physicists from around the world.  For those who want to create new types of food while keeping their healthy properties enroll in the “Refrigeration Industry and Food Biotechnologies” academic school, and finally there’s the “Economics, Mana…

  17.04.2017

• ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects

  …r a project. We decided to work as pure technology brokers: gathered a team with particular competencies and found a project that suited us, or, more exactly, a specialist who wanted to introduce his idea," shares Alexander Nikitin, one of the School's graduates who presented a project on stimulating the cultivation of fruit crops saplings. During the graduation…

  17.04.2017

• Gutenberg's Lounge: Why Stonehenge is an Observatory, How Satellites Stay on the Orbit and Where One Starts His Way to Mars

  …ght light. To have a chance to see that, tourists participate in a lottery: only 50 people can enter Newgrange at the same time, and there are always about 30,000 of those who want to. Spatialization was also a problem for ancient people, especially those who lived in steppes and the like, i.e. where they had no ground signs to orientate. In Altaic steppes, there …

  14.04.2017