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• Art&Science Expert: "Aesthetic Sensibility Depends on Physiological Stimuli"

  …n Repin's "The Unexpected Return” while having a small mirror fixed on their eyeballs. The light reflected from it was used to trace the eye's movements. Thus, the scientist obtained a map of lines and dots that represented the eye’s movements and places where the testee’s gaze stopped. Yarbus put forth an important question: do eyes move because a person seeks parti…

  18.04.2017

• Vadim Veiko: “Lasers Are Omnipotent”

  … Every day after work I go to a climbing gym or swimming pool. In winter, I go skiing and run in summer. Vadim Veiko  Do you come up with scientific ideas in the mountains? Or you can only focus on either hobby or sport? When I visit a climbing gym I cannot think about anything except my activity. Usually ideas come during sleeping. When you are awake yo…

  17.04.2017

• ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects

  …ojects explained how important it is to track the content of gluten in flour. Gluten is a protein that is responsible for the elasticity of dough. The more gluten the flour contains, the more expensive it is, hence the bread from it is of better quality. Flour vendors who supply bakeries often declare a higher content of gluten in their flour than it actually is. As …

  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

  … are many “sun temples” in the world, many of which are even older than pyramids or the Stonehenge. They were built in such a way that a particular axis that passes through certain architectural forms coincides with sunbeams at sunrise on particular days. For instance, a sunbeam that went through a pair of gates could be seen only at sunrise on the summer or winter s…

  14.04.2017

• ITMO University Gets Into TOP-3 Russian Universities for Quality of Its English Website

• ITMO’s Researcher to Boost Immune Response Using Computer Science

  …o contact with an organism, the cells that are in charge of its eradication start being active. To undertake its missions, for instance, killing of viruses, a cell triggers certain chemical reactions – this process includes enzymes that determine a sequence of reactions and control their speed. This linked series of reactions is called metabolic pathway. Generally, m…

  14.04.2017

• Innovations for Everybody: How Young Inventors Patent their Projects

  …ects the distance between the owner and an obstacle, determines its color and the level of illumination indoors. Using special tracking sensors it also helps the owner find certain objects,” says Vyacheslav Gorlash. Vyacheslav Gorlash To test the device and checkout its systems, Vyacheslav spent two days wearing it with an eye mask on his head. For over t…

  13.04.2017

• "Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green

  …ng universities (for instance, Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Singapore) have been practicing it for a long time already. The concept implies introducing courses on sustainable development, university redevelopment, and promoting ecological awareness to students and staff. Traditionally, "green" universities conduct their own eco-festivals and events, introdu…

  12.04.2017

• King of the Ring: ITMO Sportsmen win the Student MMA League

  …m the best in St. Petersburg. Now we have been given the belt and then we will compete with sportsmen from Moscow,” says Ibragim Ibragimov. When Ibragim Ibragimov, the captain of the team, won , it became clear that ITMO sportsmen would become the first. According to Mr. Ibragimov, individual points of all the members of a team contribute to the total score. Aft…

  11.04.2017

• Trapping Light: Anisotropic Structures Can Increase Optical Device's Efficiency

  …researcher's task is to create such a structure where two waves that take away the light will practically diminish each other. What is this for? When light moves along a certain trajectory, it can pass it tens or even hundreds of times. Gradually, light emission escapes the structure - similar to the electron leaving the well. Yet, if interference occurs and light…

  11.04.2017