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• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …mple here is getting scarred. By the way, what’s the purpose of dermal ridges? There exist two hypotheses on this issue. The first implies that dermal ridges improve the traction with a surface of any object that we hold in our hands. Patterns on the palms of capuchin monkeys have a similar purpose: they help them grasp tree branches better. On the other ha…

  27.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  … but wonder how it all works from the inside.” The factory ITMO University students got to visit focuses on personal hygiene products and household cleaning goods. In their production process, they use cutting-edge equipment, including a smart drone able to carry heavy loads. According to the company’s staff, one of their main goals at the moment is to achieve m…

  27.03.2019

• Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way

  … story about a real incident or person”;that was once the case with the Russian language, as well. But starting in the early 20th century, its meaning changed, and anecdotes became fictional short stories told for the purpose of having a good laugh. This also marked the beginning of their unceasing popularity. So, what is it that makes anecdotes different from reg…

  26.03.2019

• Scientist Evgeny Belyaev on the Challenges of Video Encoding, Limits of Compression, and Future of Streaming

  …oving some of the algorithms that make up these codecs. In 2013, I participated in the Grand Video Compression Challenge (San Jose, CA, USA), where I got a finalist award for the reduction of H.265/HEVC video bit streams by about 0.5-1.5 % without a rise in complexity. How are these codecs and algorithms evaluated? There are a number of standard tools used to e…

  26.03.2019

• Plastic Cards from Magnetic Stripes to Apple Pay: How Payment Industry Changed Over 70 Years

  …either represented by US payment systems or rather specific payment systems like Unionpay International, which is, while on one hand international, bases practically all of its transactions in China. There are also national payment systems that managed to breakthrough to the international market, such as the Japanese JCB. By tally of transacti…

  26.03.2019

• Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy

  …mitations. For example, they tested whether an humanoid robot can reach a door handle, turn it at a proper angle and open the door. Or get behind a car wheel. Performing such simple actions is still very hard for robots. The situation with vehicles and drones is a lot better, as they are already comparatively much more  efficient. You might not know it, but when y…

  25.03.2019

• Russian Physicist Alexey Melnikov Awarded the Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize

  …m speedup by quantum walk with convolutional neural networks”. “In January, we completed the paper where we showed that machine intelligence learned and proved itself able to function as an export telling where to expert quantum speedup and where not. Imagine that you built an expensive installation (for example, a quantum simulator), but how to tell if there’s …

  25.03.2019

• ITMO University and Siemens Launch Joint Research Lab

  …ctor of ITMO University, and Alexander Liberov, the president and CEO of Siemens Russia, took part in the opening ceremony. Creation of the “Cognitive Technologies in Industrial Production” laboratory is a part of the Siemens company’s strategy for the development of digital technologies in Russia. The newly-founded research unit will focus on the development of u…

  22.03.2019

• University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis

  …pproaches to metabolic analysis: comprehensive metabolic analysis: qualitative and quantitative analysis of all metabolites, which is still impossible due to technical restrictions; metabolic dactylography: classification of a sample using express analysis, used for testing whether the concentration of a substance is equal in several analyses; …

  22.03.2019

• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  …The Botanical Garden is one of those wonderful places you go when you want to take a trip around the world but can’t. It boasts the fifth biggest collection of plants found everywhere from tropical rainforests to deserts. However, what makes this place truly amazing and different from other museums, is that its exposition changes every day (quite literally): plants a…

  22.03.2019