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• Going Extreme — Active & Adventure Sports in Saint Petersburg

  … If you’re thinking of resting for a couple of days, you should consider staying at a tourist base — most of these offer both activities and accommodation, not to mention catering and traditional things like banya that you should definitely try out (for further information, check the links below). Regrettably, most organizations don’t have an English version fo…

  29.11.2016

• Vladimir Vasilyev — Rector of the Year

  … hard to evaluate the efficiency of non-commercial enterprises. That’s why when choosing the laureates for the nominations not related to business, we judged by qualitative criteria. We looked what the media wrote about them, what they’ve achieved in their fields. ITMO’s latest achievements are high positions in international rankings, new educational programs, its s…

  28.11.2016

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

  …s are split into three age groups, and compete in four categories. The Regular category is about building a robot to solve particular tasks (like sorting objects by some characteristics or moving along a particular route); in this category, there are strict requirements to the robot's external dimensions and components. Another two are related to sports: the traditio…

  28.11.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know

  …"Atlas of the Underworld" revealed oceans and mountains lots of Earth’s history. A complete x-ray of Earth’s interior is coming into focus with a catalogue of subducted plates and related surface rock records. Graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics. A new method of producing environmentally friendly conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based ink o…

  28.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

  …hanks to a dark, hunched, evil-looking stove in the corner that heated the air in the cramped space to a ferocious degree. However, I had never surrendered myself to the mysterious Russian Banya practice of "Flogging", in which the victim is beaten in the heat with bunches of steaming birch leaves, known as "Veniki". But, after one of the most punishing trips ever…

  25.11.2016

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

  … city, and inviting players to immerse themselves in the life of a humble history student, chosen to become part of the "Old Order' in a journey to solve all of its darkest mysteries, and, along the way, to find a couple of life-size, actual skeletons in the closet! Of course, no review would be complete without the classic (and a classic never gets old) game:…

  25.11.2016

• Quantum Dots Offer New Platform for Fingertip Terahertz Devices

  …agnetic spectrum. Reference: Ross R. Leyman, Andrei Gorodetsky, Natalia Bazieva, Gediminas Molis, ArunasKrotkus, Edmund Clarke, and Edik U. Rafailov (2016), Quantum dot materials for terahertz generation applications, Laser & Photonics Reviews, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.201 500 176/abstract…

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  …olve two tasks: first is choosing a range of places for the user and arranging them according to his preferences. The other is elaborating an optimal route based on several criteria. How do you plan to monetize your idea? When I'll upload it on Google Play, it'll cost some money. Or I'll monetize it using advertising. Still, it's a tough question: will our idea los…

  24.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  … a donor woman, whose ovum was fertilized with sperm cell of the husband of the first woman. Then an embryo was transplanted to the natural mother. It means that the genetic material of this kid consists of parent’s genes (98%) and the donor mother (2%). The scientists affected the processes of natural selections so as to create more viable pos

  24.11.2016

• Internet of Magic Things: How to Improve IoT Systems

  …d maintenance of user scenarios. Here, one faces a problem, as basic scenarios cannot be applied to interaction with Internet of Things (IoT). For example, one of IoT’s characteristics is that each network node, which appears when one installs a new device, provokes plenty of scenario transitions. Besides, all devices have their own micro scenarios. One also has to …

  23.11.2016