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• The Master Provocateur

  …ks, biker skulls, dobermans, horrifically outsized flies and in the centre, a terrifying sculpture of a skeletal hound with a multicoloured tropical bird clenched between its jaws. For the first time, this is a room where regular gallery-goers and Farbre enthusiasts meet and mingle, and there is a genuine sense of a developing narrative, like a dive-bar before the br…

  03.02.2017

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …ved by science. Also, many believe that museums help promote scientific worldview. "From my point of view, scientific worldview has to do with understanding the fundamental laws of reality, as well as the principles of forming scientific cognition based on particular research results. Critical thinking is something different: it is the skill of analyzing different …

  31.01.2017

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

  …They can switch them off and have a rest, but one has to pay to stay in silence. Another problem is that people have to, on tha one hand, regulate the AI development using laws, but on the other hand, don’t inhabit the progress. Yet, is it possible by using laws only? Human brain VS AI Isaak Asimov's fans remember a famous dial…

  17.01.2017

• How to Hack into Something That Cannot be Hacked?

  …y to hack them. This is what my research team does. Vadim Makarov in the quantum hacking laboratory How does one attack quantum cryptography systems? We make use of flaws and imperfections of optical components. For instance, some cryptographic systems use single-photon detectors: when they absorb a photon, they register a reading. One can blind it with brig…

  28.12.2016

• From White Nights to Black Days: Surviving the Deep, Dark Winter in St. Petersburg

• 10 Things We Are Proud of in 2016

  …nd took their prize spot next to MIT and just below Harvard. Nature Index names ITMO a "Rising Star". Tracking research at over 8,000 institutions worldwide, the index draws out countries and institutions "that are the players to watch." The authors noted that ITMO U "saw a leap of 184% in its WTC." The Science of Fun. Over the year, ITMO U showed off its fu…

  20.12.2016

• Startups vs Venture Officials: Why You Should Just Do It Yourself

  …inning stages and they need to see a five year plan and future sales" - explained the General Director of Innovation and Development", Michael Mastin. "In Russia there are no laws related to venture, so there is always a danger of having problems with prosecuting due to inefficient expenditure of means in the case of a startup’s failure. Therefore, it is understandab…

  30.11.2016

• STI, Markets and Ethics — How to Become a Leader of the High-Technology Markets?

  …o 400. We've still to learn how to accept the future. Just look at this terrible built-up in Devyatkino and Murino (new residential areas in Saint Petersburg -Ed.). The past draws us back, and I don't know any event when a revolution was based on a previous formation. Powerful lobbies in different fields do everything to prevent new technologies from being introduced…

  08.11.2016

• 5 Cool and Spooky Finds

  …me spectacularly spooky contraptions. Our favorite? A Martian Sample Return Mission… Diamonds are forever but what about data? A new method uses lasers to probe the gem’s flaws and create data storage that could potentially last forever. Is Black Moon this Halloween a bad sign? The astronomical phenomenon is adding darkness to the scariest night of the year in …

  31.10.2016

• A Solar Lab: What Mysteries are Hidden in the Sun?

  …ries were switched off but communications continued for many kilometers. It can be easily explained by a physics program taught at high school like the Ampere’s and Faraday’s laws. If we have electric current, it includes a magnetic field but if we have a magnetic field changed it induces current. We have the same process in the atmosphere — the particles caught be t…

  17.10.2016