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• Movie Fridays: Black Books, or The Good Old Telly of Yore

  …end up as a teenage alcoholic, if you’re wondering). But the side-splitting sarcasm abundantly served by Black Books characters did go to my head a bit, much to my parents’ dissatisfaction, which didn’t nonetheless stop them from nicking these DVDs off me from time to time. (Needless to say that the teacher never saw that box set ever again. And so it all started.…

  18.01.2019

• Five Simple DIY Devices

  … the form of a text. Add to that a microcontroller, which allows for the system to work, and batteries, which will power the whole device. Watch the video (in Russian) for full instructions. The balloon you get as a result is capable of rising 37 km above the Earth, after which it will sadly fall back down. But the good news is that you will able to find the camera a…

  17.01.2019

• Scientists Propose a Fully Optical Method for Near-Field Reshaping and Enhancement in Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Oligomers

  …n the field of plasmonics where different metal particles are used to control light. With the development of dielectric nanophotonics, scientists managed to overcome particular restrictions of plasmonics that had to do with losses on optical frequencies. Not so long ago, scientists have come up with a new relevant concept that has to do with creating hybrid systems w…

  17.01.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 19-20

  …ything like me and prefer Impressionism to any other art movement, you’ll be delighted to hear that the Etagi creative space is currently hosting an exhibition of high-quality reproductions of Claude Monet’s best works. A total of 60 paintings are on display, each provided with a detailed description. The exhibition is open till February 14. Entrance fee is 200 ruble…

  16.01.2019

• School Students Launching Sputniks Into Space? No Big Deal Today, Says This Educator

  …Spaceships can be divided into two groups: expendable and reusable. The evident drawback of the former ones is that a single launch into space leads to their destruction. The latter aren’t that simple. They do return to Earth in separate modules, but all the devices needed to enable such a come back inevitably make them weigh more, thus limiting the total amount of p…

  16.01.2019

• Moving Forward: St. Petersburg in 2019

  …o’s Line 5 – Dunayskaya, Shushary, and Prospekt Slavy – are expected to open on May 27, 2019, the city’s 316th birthday. Lakhta Center opens its doors After six years of construction, in 2019 all public areas of Europe’s tallest building will become open to visitors. The most enticing being, of course, the 86th-floor observation deck where guests can witness St…

  15.01.2019

• The Best of CES 2019: Highlights and Trends

  … Together with his colleagues, Andrey Korsakov presented the latest development of ITMO University students and the TAU Tracker company, Shadow Samurai, a game with direct hand interaction powered by TAU Tracker motion capture gloves. Devil is in detail Another major trend of 2019 is that companies start to step away from making big and radical changes and …

  15.01.2019

• Three Everyday Things You Can't Buy in Russia

  … of alcohol. I rubbed it onto my hands and had an irresistible urge to wash them afterwards. Maybe that was the idea. Foreign cheese. A few years ago, foreign cheese fell under sanctions imposed by the Russian government on a multitude of foreign products, including various kinds of dairy. This in turn has spurred local production an…

  14.01.2019

• ITMO Scientists’ Research at Sino-Russian Symposium at Harbin Institute of Technology

  …rch project conducted at ITMO’s International Research Center “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium”, aimed at exploring nonconventional raw materials and using them to produce functional foods. Among such ingredients is camel milk, which is produced in bulk in Kazakhstan and can be used as an alternative to cow’s milk. What makes this product especially valuable …

  14.01.2019

• Not by Scopus Alone: World’s Best Scientific Databases

  …abase for the medical sphere. Publishing houses offer a range of opportunities for researchers: databases of scientific texts, information resources, and even journals acquire the functions of social networks. A good example of such integration is a social network called Mendeley produced by the Elsevier publishing house. This platform gives you free access to articl…

  14.01.2019