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• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  … backup databank. Thanks to this, authors can save their work — each one will be identified and will have two copies. Such projects as "Kyberleninka," the Association of Internet Publishers, the Science Reporter, the Information Culture and the No Registry supported the idea of the expert. "We aim to make a new social contract for authors. If someone wants to shar…

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  …hey have to solve. For example, in the "Waiting for Waves and Particles", I show the work of physicists, who spent their lives on searching for gravitational waves, axions, magnetic monofields — the phenomena that have been predicted, are yet to be confirmed. Thus, the characters search for something they can well never find. And I show why they continue at it, what …

  05.12.2016

• CodeХ’s Founder on Apps for the Next Generation of Media

  …development or design. We organized our activities to give members an opportunity to work remotely. Most tasks don’t need team work. You just have to have a laptop and Internet access. Please talk about projects made by CodeX. All our solutions are "packaged" - each program is independent and open. The products made by CodeX have already been implemented int…

  30.11.2016

• ITMO "Raps the Scrap" at the World Robot Olympiad

  …the forth category — "Open" - is the topic to work on. This year, it was "Rap the Scrap" - using robotics to reduce, manage and recycle waste. Igor Lositsky. Credit: social networks "When we start working on a project, we all share our thoughts, and thus a small idea becomes really detailed, we think up new functions and options. The "Open" category at the …

  28.11.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know

  …mpairment in memory when experiencing acute stress of a test. Unruly hair has scientific reasons. You can now actually get a clinical diagnosis of "uncombable hair' using genetic methods. Photo caption: Computer rendering of the "Atlas of the Underworld". Photo credit: Science Magazine.…

  28.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

• Quantum Dots Offer New Platform for Fingertip Terahertz Devices

  …The terahertz range lies between infrared and microwave spectra. Terahertz radiation can penetrate living tissues, but, unlike X-rays, is not ionizing and poses no health hazard. Therefore, medical practitioners could benefit immensely from compact terahertz scanners that can obtain pictures of tissues in a living organism. In addition, terahertz waves are currently …

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  …I have to update the algorithms and expand the databases. There are already about a hundred places there, but I need much more. Also, the app has to be integrated with social networks. We conduct surveys to understand the user's preferences, and if one uses his or her account with the app, we would have the opportunity to analyze their interests. If we're talking ab…

  24.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …This book became the base of the evolutional theory, according to which, natural selection and adaptation are the main engines of speciation. Later such phenomena as genetic drift and flow as well as mutations were also marked as the mechanizms of evolution. In different periods of the world’s history, the theory was criticized and reinterpreted in various ways. In …

  24.11.2016