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• 5 Science News Now

  …d waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth, which could be an important resource for astronauts on deep space missions.…

  29.01.2018

• Neural Networks Can Identify Any Person’s Age

  …ers, and restore others. To teach the neural networks, we used overall data on all of the populations, and also data on each population in particular. Then we checked the precision of our solution on external, independent data. It turned out that the network that learned from the overall data on all populations made 10% less mistakes than those that learned from data…

  26.01.2018

• ITMO Students' Startup Lets Gamers Play With Top E-Sports Players

  …ct when I thought about how impossible it would be to get to play football with Cristiano Ronaldo. And then I thought how great it would be to play an online game with a professional cyberathlete. I added this idea to my personal list of interesting thoughts that come to my mind,” remembers Nikolai Golos, Master’s student at the Department of Computer Technology and …

  25.01.2018

• 5 Summer Schools You Need to Apply for Fast

  …nters. For over two months, participants of the student program can become part of a diverse team of researchers, attend lectures, visit CERN facilities, take part in discussions and workshops with people who are leaders in their fields. Undergraduate students who have completed at least three years of studies, Master’s students, and those graduating in the sum…

  25.01.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 27-28

  …This week, we have two causes for a celebration. The first is Tatiana’s Day - a merry student holiday; to learn more about this occasion and the relevant events dedicated to it, please refer to our recent article on the topic. The other one is most important to our city - the Day of Lifting the Siege of Leningrad. This year, the pinnacle of the celebration will be…

  24.01.2018

• ITMO and Partners Hold Open Data Hackathon

  …n’s participants were tasked with finding out more about what information is required of those who needed, the development of modern digital services, and also shaping their vision of the development of state information policy. A large amount of open data is published by public authorities, but it is not so easy to access and use effectively. To do so, profes

  23.01.2018

• Generation Z: Who Are They?

  …ivide the study into several phases, two of which are already completed. During the first phase, we tried to shed a light on the factors determining how Gen Z’s choose a profession and an employer, while the second part aimed to answer the question of how to motivate Gen Z’s and make their work more efficient. Both studies were conducted during the winter semester, a…

  23.01.2018

• Climate Change: What the Future Holds

  …wever, the question remains whether global warming is a result of human activity or not. Most likely it is: 97% of scientists agree that the cause is due to greenhouse gas emissions, a result of pollution from factories and transportation, among other causes. However, based on the evidence prepared by NASA, it is clear that in the last 400,000 years the emis

  22.01.2018

• ITMO Scientists' Collaboration with German and Swiss Colleagues Wins ERA.Net Research Grant

  …m scientific and technological partnerships between member countries of the European Union, EU-associated countries and Russia. One of the project’s key objectives is the inclusion of Russian scientists in the European Research Area (ERA). Unlike the European framework program Horizon 2020 (learn more about it here), ERA.Net RUS Plus offers a closer collaboration …

  22.01.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …ve that they can catch the flu by exposure to droplets from an infected person's coughs or sneezes or by touching contaminated surfaces. But, new information about flu transmission reveals that we may pass the flu to others just by breathing. Single blood test screens for eight cancer types. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers developed a single blood t…

  22.01.2018