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• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …o do that, they needed an alcoholometric scale, and Mendeleev’s task was to come up with one. The main difficulty was that it is impossible to obtain absolute alcohol by simple fractional distillation, because a mixture containing around 96% alcohol and 4% water becomes a constant boiling mixture. But Mendeleev was the first one to manage it. He created fully anhy…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …e male mouse’s brain is restructured so as to make sure that he doesn’t fall in love with anyone else. The nucleus accumbens is the same area of the brain that is responsible for addiction to certain drugs, which is why love is often compared to a drug-induced trance. Non-monogamous mice have an increased number of D1 receptors from the get-go and they don’t need to …

  14.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 16-17

  …Davidson. The exhibition is open from February 8 till March 3. Admission is free. Exhibition to Kinopolis movie studio For those who want to learn more about modern cinema production, the Kinopolis movie studio organizes interactive exhibitions, the first one kicking off this Saturday, February 16. Once inside, you find yourself in the world of cinema with stag…

  13.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …Sustainable development and eco-construction are interconnected. Green standards are needed for constructing buildings that are more eco-friendly. While ten years ago eco-construction in Russia was something that was laughed about, now there is a multi-professional community strongly driven by the green building cause. Also known as …

  13.02.2019

• 'All We Have to Do is Work Harder': Head of ITMO's Science and Technology Foresight on Bett-2019

  … new things of their own. For example, a student can log onto some platform, write a bit of code and see how real devices interact with their code. This way, they learn how their actions in the digital environment can affect the real life. VR models work in a similar manner. Before today, students learned about World War I by reading textbooks; now they can put on…

  13.02.2019

• Romantic St. Petersburg

  …iconic roofs of the city, and even the Sea Port of St. Petersburg far off in the distance. Anichkov Garden Even though this oft-overlooked quaint park is situated at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Fontanka River, it is surprisingly serene and quiet. Many a St. Petersburg citizen have passed it by, unaware that the wrought-iron fence of Anichkov Palace …

  12.02.2019

• Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO

  …ussian universities applied for participation in the first round of the 2018/2019 academic year scholarship contest. Of all of these applications, 3,324 were approved for further selection subsequent to the technical examination, with 1,998 participants making it through to the second round after that. The second round took place from January 28 to February 9, 2019, …

  12.02.2019

• Just Ask: How Does New Cancer Consultation Service Work

  …es a day,” says Alexander Borunov, head of the Prosto Sprosit project. “We did plan for a big demand prior to starting out, but the real numbers exceeded even the boldest of our projections. The service has just started working, and we’ll still have to adjust and improve it going forward. All of our consulting doctors’ schedules are full to the brim. I would only add…

  11.02.2019

• ITMO Open Science at Erarta: From MegaBattle to Open Talk

  …rested in research, be it a department head, a Master’s or a PhD student, could partake in the conference, share the results of their projects and establish new partnerships. The selection process was carried out by the program committee. Such conferences have long been held in many leading universities abroad. For example, MIT regularly organizes such meetings to…

  11.02.2019

• Mendeleev 150, MedChem 2019, and Marnikov Congress: the International Year of the Period Table in Russia

  …rnational Symposium «Design and Synthesis of Supramolecular Architectures» and the International School on Cheminformatics. Among the events’ topics are the mechanisms of chemical reactions and the structure of organic compounds, the chemistry of natural compounds, medical chemistry, organic products and materials, and more (see the full list here). The list of invit…

  11.02.2019