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• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …The application of drones In June, the logistics company Amazon started its trial of delivering small packages via drones in Great Britain. Great Britain was chosen because of its flexible legislation in relation to drones. The company states that the use of drones will allow its customers to receive their packages as soon as 30 minu…

  08.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …cial networks. Those are still used for promotion in Twitter, but now they can also analyze user's posts, and help moderate sites, as well", - notes Nikolai Puzyrev. Entertainment programs are the most successful among Telegram users - these are games and bots that mail out jokes, pics and music. For example, there is the @QuestGameBot@, which is the "Hello, Str…

  05.08.2016

• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

• Jaime Lerner: “Don't Trust Pessimists”

  …native city where 1,800,000 people live in. Every city apart from its’ problems has the role which is to act humanely toward people. It includes such issues as mobility and sustainability. Now 83 cities all over the world use so-called Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) of Curitiba, the system we introduced in 1970-s. In 1974 we started with 25,000 passengers a day, now it…

  04.08.2016

• “Yagodnoe” SportsCamp: Social Projects and Activities for International Students

  …s. The Educational Module includes lectures given by the specialists from the Social Design and Entrepreneurship Center. Participants will take part in a business game to obtain experience in project management.  Then, students will have to organize and provide different volunteer activities. For instance, to split firewood for older people living in the Yagodnoe …

  03.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  … Thus, the Summer School gave students an opportunity to learn about the latest news in the field of bioinformatics, to get acquainted with research methods in this area, to obtain basic skills for solving practical problems in medicine and biology. This event is the largest of its kind in Russia and was attended by young scientists not only from Russia but also f…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …ies largely depend on his environment. “Games can’t “improve” one’s intelligence, if it’s not something like chess or go, but they create the necessary conditions for maintaining it. Also, games are good for acquiring particular skills, which is essential in both education and restoration of mental capabilities – especially when it is known for sure, which cogni…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …electric organic bridges. As a result of this combination, we get something likea metamaterial with unique optical activity. Nowit is fair to say that metamaterials could be obtained by chemical means in the future”, says Alexander Vinogradov, lead author of the study and researcher at the Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies (SCAMT…

  02.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …Airborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city authorities have been trying to stop this tradition on a yearly basis (last year some of the fountains were turned off for this holiday), but, as …

  02.08.2016