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• Falcon Heavy Launch, Cancer Treatment, and Neutrinos: Top Science News of 2018

  …Alexander Khokhlov, a space instrumentation engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, the President of the Youth Section of the North-West division of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation One of the major highlights of the last year was the Falcon Heavy launch, which took place almost a year ago, on February 6, 2018. Th…

  05.02.2019

• Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO

  …ium, we mostly communicate via email. I was also surprised by how big a role Google documents play in the working process; I think that it’s not always safe from the information protection perspective. What kind of tasks did you have during your internship, other than coordinating the Ecological Raids project? I had to figure out how the volunteering process is…

  05.02.2019

• Russian Scientists Conduct Research on European XFEL

  … developed at the DESY research center in Germany from 2009 to 2017 and cost over a million euros. Co-sponsored by several countries including Russia, which covered 27% of the construction costs, the European XFEL was officially opened in Hamburg on September 1, 2017. The 3.4-kilometer-long tunnel for the European XFEL runs 6 to 38m underground from the site of th…

  04.02.2019

• Sweet Ways to Treat a Cold

  …imize the effect” because high temperatures supposedly kill its magic. My favorite use of it is a black radish syrup. You cut the top off the radish (available in the vegetable sections of most grocery stores), hollow out most of the insides, replace them with honey and put the top back on. Let it sit for a day and enjoy homemade syrup by the spoonful. Tea wit…

  04.02.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Create Cancer Treatment Nanomachines

  …new ways of treating oncological diseases. Still, there are many experiments to be conducted before it can be applied in therapy. "For now, we are trying to introduce new functional elements in the framework, ones that will contribute to a more effective recognition of oncological markers, and are also optimizing the DNA nanomachine for various RNA targets. …

  04.02.2019

• Shadow Samurai: Motion Capture Game by ITMO Developers

  …ull immersion in the game. To solve this problem, the TAU Tracker startup developed a new motion tracking technology. They are currently working on an interface that allows for interaction with 3D objects with special gloves. Using these gloves, you can control 3D objects with just your hands, which you’ll see through the helmet screen. What makes the TAU Tracker’…

  01.02.2019

• Free Online Courses to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions

  …lish Last year, just about every YouTube vlogger considered it their duty to drop a word about Skillshare. It might be annoying, but the website indeed can boast an impressive selection of courses and offers a free subscription for three months. The flipside, however, is that uploading your own course on any topic is as easy as ABC. That’s why the resource is a…

  31.01.2019

• SCAMT Achievement Award Winners on Genetic Engineering and Doing Research as a Master’s Student

  …o transfer, since its curriculum closely matched the topic of my thesis, which is about DNA nanomachines. More specifically, I’m developing a DNA nanomachine for the selective induction of apoptosis of cancer cells as part of Prof. Dmitry Kolpashchikov’s research team. DNA nanomachines are a series of synthetic single-strand DNA combined into a specific structure …

  31.01.2019

• The Whats, Whys and Hows of Biometric Data

  …r instance, the students of ITMO’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies came up with a new way of using biometric data in banking operations. Proposing an innovative money transaction system based on facial recognition technologies, their project won the best creative solution prize at a case-championship Fintech Cup. We also asked an expert to comment on thi…

  30.01.2019

• #10YearChallenge in Technology

  …card via a mobile app, which is also very convenient. AR/ VR/ MR Denis Stolyarov, Chief Engineer at ITMO University’s Design and Multimedia Center, Head of the Video360Production project: What we see today is the result of the emergence of the Oculus VR glasses in 2013. It was a real breakthrough in the industry. Before that, all VR devices were equipped…

  30.01.2019