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• Gain Extra Points with Vkontakte

  … as Social Studies Olympiads -Ed.]. This spring the Non-classical University is to reach a new level — this will be the first time when the online round is based on the social network VKontakte. To participate, schoolers have to join the official online public page of the entrance competition, fill in the form and wait for the tasks. The interaction with a tes…

  23.01.2017

• Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?

  …d to study the problem of transmitting heartbeat over distance. That was in 1996, when mobile phones were not yet common, and one had to pay for every minute of using the Internet. I found a programmer who offered to transfer information about by heartbeat to Rotterdam, where the lamp was located, every 20 minutes. I wanted to make the pulsations and my heartbeat syn…

  23.01.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …um devices, including ultra-sensitive gravity wave detectors for "hearing" distant black hole mergers. A new high for hemp. Cannabis is now put to even more good use in the Netherlands where Dutch researchers are tapping into its properties as an environmentally friendly building material to rival cement or steel. The hemp and flax fibers are combined in a resin t…

  23.01.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies

  …werful It may sound strange, as modern companies always compete in increasing efficiency of devices, but in fact we don’t need very "smart" gadgets when having higher quality network facilities. "Imagine that you need a couple of seconds to download an app. So why do you need powerful smartphones? You just can download the app, then delete it and download again wh…

  20.01.2017

• Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV

  … of the immune system, and spread around the mucous membranes close to the skin — in close contact with the outside environment. When HIV affects a leukocyte, it records its genetic code into the cell's genome, causing it to reproduce. Such viruses are called retroviruses. The affected leukocyte becomes exhausted and dies. Gradually, the immune system loses too much …

  19.01.2017

• From Julius Caesar to Now: Migraine Is More than Just a Headache

  …ne is a cardiovascular disease, and vascular distention and constriction are not aftereffects, but the main symptoms of the disease. Some scientists also think that there is genetic disposition to migraine. According to an article published in Nature Genetics, people with migraine have dozens of specific genes, more than a half of which…

  18.01.2017

• Artificial Intelligence: How to Regulate Human-Machine Interaction?

  …pare artificial and human intelligence?" "There are two types of AI: "weak" and "strong". Obviously, artificial intelligence is far from being similar to a human one. Neural networks that serve as a base of modern AI devices look like having the same working principles as a natural brain, but in fact, they haven’t Nevertheless, robotic programs can analyze and make…

  17.01.2017

• ITMO’s Researchers for Nature: How Does New Ultra-Compact Laser Work?

  …hole. In the same way, an elementary particle can "fall" into a potential hole, which is an area of space. To escape from the area a particle has to reach a certain level of kinetic energy. If it is not enough the particle will fluctuate in this hole or stay in a bound state. In 1929 John von Neumann and Paul Wigner described necessary conditions for particle’s st…

  17.01.2017

• How to Сatch Up with New Technologies: Universities of the Future

  …ets don’t need new stakeholders — nobody is interested in involving new companies and universities from Russia. Several international telecommunication standards like 5G, Internet of Things and Machine2Machine are still in process of development. Yet, these fields have almost no Russian participants. It has to be changed, as these standards, products and technologies…

  16.01.2017

• Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch

  …sed courses, the situation is only a bit better. "Everything depends on how systematic students are in their approach to education, and how well the course is made. The internet is a tool where you can easily switch from one thing to another, especially if the content is boring. This is why, in my opinion, lectures in online courses must be balanced. They shouldn’t…

  13.01.2017