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• The New Kilogram: Reasons Behind Upcoming Measurement Reform

  …f current. These laws are made evident when we work with infinitesimal amounts of matter, energy or radiation, and it turns out that these amounts can change not constantly but by fractions of some minimal units that depend on the Planck constant. The mass of one kilogram is directly tied to the value of the Planck constant. When they redefined the standard, scientis…

  24.01.2019

• Analyzing Metagenome Helps Understand the Role of Bacterial Species in Crohn’s Disease

  … is highly spread in developed countries. Amongst its possible causes are genetic predisposition, environment and patients’ lifestyle. The disease is associated with a compromised reaction of the immune system to a person's own gut microbes, as well as an imbalance in gut microbiota. In order to study its development and find the methods of effective diagnostics and …

  24.01.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 26-27

  …en the siege finally ended. Here are some of them. From January 25 to January 27, Italyanskaya and Malaya Sadovaya streets and Manezhnaya Square will turn into a full-scale reproduction of besieged Leningrad. The project is called ‘The Street of Life’ and will feature military equipment of the era. Ground-floor windows of buildings will be boarded up, walls will a…

  23.01.2019

• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  …re's also an option to show particular sets of locations. Each set includes tags with descriptions of particular phenomena and the associated historic facts. For example, there's a section dedicated to repressed scientists, penal labor placements of the prisoners of Moscow concentration camps and so on. You can look up the locations of the places where convicted scie…

  23.01.2019

• Science Day at ITMO University

  …Program of the Conference The ITMO Open Science program has several sections, each with a different format and focus. The conference will start with a MegaBattle when the heads of all ITMO’s schools will share about their major achievements over the last year and talk about their departments’ science development strategies. MegaBattle will be held in the Science S…

  23.01.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Eclecticism

  …actories, which resulted in rapid urbanization. Together with the development of capitalism, it created the need for new city-planning strategies and approaches to the solution of functional and artistic problems. Criticized for being overly bureaucratic and impractical, Classicism with its grandeur and monumentality didn’t meet the requirements of the new period.…

  22.01.2019

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation

  …ony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have created an innovative visual language and method. Revolutions don’t come cheap. Due to the use of new technology, production lasted much longer than it usually does: most animated projects require a week of work to create four seconds of animation; Into the Spider-Verse spent that amount of time on just …

  22.01.2019

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …contents of an ancient Chinese tomb. It appears that the old lady was very fond of the ape, and they were buried together. Today, there are no gibbons in this area; the species’ extinction was caused by deforestation. The discovery indicates that China’s biodiversity has decreased dramatically over the last 2,000 years. Panda 100 chimpanzee site, Ivory Coast, …

  22.01.2019

• Winter, Explained: Why Snow is White, Ice Slippery, and Snowflakes Unique

  … frozen water is bound to their structure. Ice crystals are organized in strict order and have a clear orientation. This is why passing through the ice doesn’t impact the light’s direction that much. Shambolic in structure, snow crystals are on the polar side of the spectrum. Falling onto one snow crystal, the light bounces off to another one, which then once again c…

  21.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …omagnetic fields at the nanoscale. Combining metal nanoparticles and dielectrics in a single nanostructure offers new improved properties: strong nonlinear optical properties, unidirectional scattering, etc. This also contributes to such materials' relevance. You always have been focusing on photonics, haven't you? This is quite a complex story. I started my Ma…

  21.01.2019