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• Watching the Skies: Roscosmos Installs a New Set-up for Monitoring Space Debris

  … also because China attempted to "militarize" space. What's the danger of space debris? It may seem that space debris is nothing scary: some bits of metal or plastic are wandering the orbit. Yet, these "bits" fly at about 10 kilometers per second. Any collision with them can cause serious damage to active satellites, and this may cost billions of dollars. This …

  09.03.2017

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  …plex syndromes, when mixed diseases are present and it’s hard to define what happens to the patient. This mostly has to do with oncology and hereditary diseases. That's why we want to learn to predict their results beforehand", notes Nikolai Panushev, the project's head. The BioHack Hackathone "Why did we choose this project? It is very creative: we even did …

  09.03.2017

• Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT

  …ned mathematicians learned here, and in the recent years, its graduates are known as world's strongest programmers. During my seventh year, I got into a programming club, as I wanted to know more about my mother's profession. There, I came to like contests in programming. I successfully participated in individual and team competitions, and then I got interested in so…

  08.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  … work experience, and all the ups and downs. Then the speakers answers questions from the audience some of which might be rather tricky. There were quite a lot of people who wanted to listen to the Rector. Quite a large number attended the meeting. "When I was invited to participate in the project, first I wasn’t sure whether I should accept it or not. My doubts we…

  07.03.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  …ence speeches in bars. I asked researchers to come there and share about their passion for science, what inspired them to do research instead of participate in a conference. I wanted their emotions to make people understand that science is very important. In parallel with my postdoc I also wrote a blog, made science popular movies, published articles in sci pop ma…

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  …y a processor while running. They came to the point that even modern techniques don’t help in understanding how a simple processor works, so let alone the brain. Do we really want AI to copy natural intelligence? Let’s compare natural intelligence with photosynthesis and AI with a solar battery. Does the battery create energy through photosynthesis? In terms of its…

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

  … disappointment. And in every other respect, it’s a really bog-standard, minimally decorated, unremarkable stolovaya, which makes it difficult to recommend. However, if you want a truly exemplary health-stolovaya option, look no further than the excellent Rada & K on ul Gorokhova 36. While some might argue that it’s closer to being a regular cafe, the basic stolov…

  03.03.2017

• Delicacy for Sportsmen- How to Eat Ice-Cream and Build Muscle

  …o on a special diet: to reduce amount of calories and animal fats. It means that they didn’t have to eat fast food, farinaceous products, sweets and even fruits. As she didn’t want to limit herself with grains and boiled chicken, Malika decided to change the composition of one of her favourite foods: ice-cream. She decided to exclude fats, sugar and its substitutes l…

  03.03.2017

• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  …people results of research, and give the full information. But people may ask who’s paid for that. It is very important to keep balance between different interests- scientists want to research and journalists want to investigate. It is not about sharing the complete information with society, but about a trust-based relationship in the f…

  02.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  …e organize tours to our plants, launch educational programs, develop communications with the media. As for the latter, we face many problems, especially in the regions: no one wants to really explain what we do. That is why we are planning a special project for the Kaliningrad region, where our specialists will explain what radioelectronics is, what multi-wall nanotu…

  02.03.2017