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• Bookstores of St. Petersburg

  …Vse Svobodny Moika emb., 28. Website This charming place feels less like a store and more like an old, cozy library. Among its catalogue are mostly books on popular science, philosophy, art, social sciences and books from independent publishers, as well as magazines and charming souvenirs. Several shelves are dedicated exclusively…

  06.03.2018

• The Finals of the GenerationS TechNet Track Start in St. Petersburg

  …ancial model and transfer technologies to industry. The participants will also get familiar with the specifics of such industrial enterprises in the region as Prometey Central Scientific Research Institute of Structural Materials, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, Lenpoligrafmash, MOBAHAUS and the Kirov Plant, and meet with the top managers of these companies. Among the…

  06.03.2018

• ITMO and Mel Science Launch Affiliate Program for Kids

  …Mel Science develops chemistry kits for explaining science to kids by conducting safe chemical experiments. The company representatives stress that MEL Chemistry is the first product of this kind that actually teaches chemistry and not just shows science-related tricks. The kits come with an educational ap…

  06.03.2018

• ITMO Scientists Study Properties of Terahertz Gauss-Bessel Beams

  …problem is that true non-diffractive Bessel beam can not be created in practice, as generating them would require an infinitely long lens and an infinite amount of energy. So, scientists generate quasi-Bessel beams, focusing Gaussian beam by an axicon or conical lens. The resulting Gauss-Bessel beams have properties as close as possible to those of true non-diffracti…

  05.03.2018

• Science Slam: Dark Matter and Liquid Batteries for Electric Vehicles

  …Six speakers competed for the audience’s applause: three young scientists and three school students from St. Petersburg. The rules didn’t change: the participants had to explain their research in layman’s terms to the not-so-scientific audience. What is enteral nutrition? How does it work and in what way can it be useful to everybody…

  05.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  …ange with regard to the different development scenarios of world economy. What is more, there’s the International Panel on Climate Change. Any specialist in the field of geosciences or any other field who needs to learn about changes in hydrometeorological variables can use their databases and get expert assessment of the possible changes of these variables with r…

  05.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …Edible electronics cookies? Scientists report that they have developed a way to write graphene patterns onto virtually any surface including food. They say the new technique could lay the groundwork for the edible electronics capable of tracing the progression of foods from farm to table, as well as detecting harmful organisms that can cause gastric distress. Aque…

  05.03.2018

• Mining Hardware Helps Scientists Gain Insight into Silicon Nanoparticles

  …Improvement of computing devices today focuses on increasing information processing speeds. Nanophotonics is one of the sciences that can solve this problem by means of optical devices. Although optical signals can be transmitted and processed much faster than electronic ones, first, it is necessary to learn how to quickly control light on a small scale. For this pur…

  02.03.2018

• ITMO Students Develop VR Lecture Hall to Replace Onsite Education

  … besides technical specialists, it includes lecturers who write scenarios and consult the developers. Horum’s users will be offered lessons on both technical and non-technical sciences; for instance, the already existing demo is an interdisciplinary lesson that takes the student to the ancient city of Pompeii and provides information about the volcano that destroyed …

  02.03.2018

• ITMO University’s Business Incubator Named Among World’s Best

  …a transformation – in its place the university now has the multi-functional Entrepreneurship Center; its primary goal is to train staff and accelerate projects. Every student, scientist, and staff member of an innovative company or a startup can take part in the Center’s events to learn about starting and developing their business and, of course, acquire the necessar…

  01.03.2018