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• Chicken Blindness and Cuckoo’s Tears: Unusual Russian Flower Names and Their Origins

  …is Russian for coltsfoot. This lovely little flower is a spring favorite of mine. Once you see it around, you can safely say that warm days are right around the corner. The explanation behind its name lies in the difference between the two sides of its leaf: one has a soft white surface, and the other is smooth and dark. The first feels warmer, so it’s associated wit…

  29.04.2024

• Must-Read Russian Books for Learners of Any Level

  … grammar skills. To help you boost your skills and get a better understanding of the local culture, Natalia and her colleagues at ITMO Foreign Language Training Center, Svetlana Dorofeeva and Oksana Kolegova, have picked their recommendations for all proficiency levels. All of the books mentioned here are available for ITMO students via LitRes with a free sub…

  16.04.2024

• Navigate Avito Like a Pro: Declutter & Find Vintage Treasures Online

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #51

  …“We are planning to continue our research on re-establishing disrupted cell communication with the goal of designing a material that cells will recognize as ‘kin,’” shared Svetlana Ulasevich, one of the project’s authors and an associate professor at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center. Learn more: ITMO Scientists Suggest Platform to Study Cell Communication …

  25.03.2024

• ITMO Scientists Suggest Platform to Study Cell Communication and Assist Targeted Drug Delivery

  …n. We are planning to continue our research on re-establishing disrupted cell communication with the goal of designing a material that cells will recognize as ‘kin,’” adds Svetlana Ulasevich, one of the paper’s authors and an associate professor at ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center. This research project was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (…

  21.03.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #50

  …nterfeiting of Glass Products People Should women in science have to choose between career and family? In the run-up to International Women’s Day, ITMO.NEWS spoke to Svetlana Roslyakova, an ITMO alumna and a lecturer and researcher at the university’s Institute of Design & Urban Studies. A deeply passionate scholar of lighting engineering, she spoke to us ab…

  11.03.2024

• Bright Prospects: ITMO Researcher Svetlana Roslyakova on Lighting Engineering, Her Path to Science, and Being a Mom

• Truth VS Fiction: Russia in Pop Culture

  … So, why “cranberry”? Well, explanations differ – it may have come from a 19th-century travelog, a parody play, or even from the legendary novelist Alexandre Dumas. All versions agree on one thing: it all goes back to a translation error and a description of “wide-canopied cranberry trees” as something you’d find in Russia. And cranberries, as any Russian will tell …

  27.02.2024

• Three Keys to Deciphering Slavic Folklore Symbols

  …butes of the ancient pagan god Perun). But why did it look that way? In his work Paganism of the Ancient Slavs (Язычество древних славян), Boris Rybakov suggests two explanations: firstly, it might represent a snowflake, which always has six axes, just like the thunder wheel, and comes from the sky. Secondly, it might be associated with ball lightning, since b…

  05.02.2024

• Researchers Develop New Selective Anti-Cancer Compounds

  …-10185).  Reference: Anton Muravev, Alexandra Voloshina, Anastasia Sapunova, Farida Gabdrakhmanova, Oksana Lenina, Konstantin Petrov, Sergey Shityakov, Ekaterina Skorb, Svetlana Solovieva, Igor Antipin. Calix[4]arene–pyrazole conjugates as potential cancer therapeutics (Bioorganic Chemistry, 2023).…

  18.09.2023