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• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …e Australopithecus skeleton ever found.   Description of Lucy’s baby’s foot, Dikika, Ethiopia, 3.31-3.35 million years ago The fossilized skull and other skeletal remains of a three-year-old Australopithecus afarensis female hominid were unearthed quite a long time ago and have been described piece by piece since then. In 2018, researchers described its foot…

  22.01.2019

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

  … of this comes with a caveat. For the frost patterns to be created, both the windowpane and the air that affects it have to be cold enough. Plastic windows have better thermal insulation than their wooden counterparts, which causes the window glass that is on the inside to have a higher temperature. That’s why they’re less frostwork-fri…

  21.01.2019

• Russian Pelmeni: Not Just Student Food

  …'How can you have this instead of yogurt in the morning?' My American husband was horrified when he first saw our entire family consume platefuls of steaming pelmeni doused with sour cream and mustard. And then he took a bite and was converted. Even the skinniest of Russian girls love pelmeni, the Russian take on meat dumplings. It’s about that microburst of hot, …

  21.01.2019

• 24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development

  …d year Bachelor’s student when I started working on this project. I have recently sold it as well. In addition to that, I also developed one of the most popular publics on VK, Instagram, Facebook and Odnoklassniki, which I also sold well. That’s how I earned my first million at the age of 19, which turned into a million dollars by the time I was 20. How do you use…

  18.01.2019

• Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University

  …u can communicate. They also have bedrooms there. You can well spend the night in the library if you want to. My peers and myself even had such a challenge. I did that, though instead of the bedroom I spent it at my workplace, as exams were approaching. What is great about the library is not just the comfort it offers, but also the opportunity to find the people y…

  18.01.2019

• Five Simple DIY Devices

  …the bin is, to the latter’s interior. As soon as the amount of trash is too much for the bin to handle, it will open its lid to give you a heads up. After you’re done with the inside part, place an ultrasound sensor on the bin’s exterior. It will react to your movements to open and close the trash bin’s lid accordingly. The whole system is managed by a single micr…

  17.01.2019

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

  … has to do with creating hybrid systems which combine the benefits of metals and dielectrics and have enhanced properties that are essential from the practical standpoint (for instance, nonlinear optical properties, unidirectional scattering and the like). A plasmonic or dielectric nanoparticle can act as a transmitting nanoantenna that converts the localized …

  17.01.2019

• Master’s Student from Argentina: Immersing Into New Culture Is Like Starting New Life

  …and behavior. But I really like the way Russian sounds. Those who say that Russian sounds coarse just haven’t spent enough time in Russia, and haven’t talked with the locals,” insists Rodrigo. Being an economist by one of his degrees (he has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the National University of the Northeast, as well as a Master’s degree in Econom…

  17.01.2019

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

  …at you have to pay 200 rubles extra and register in advance if you want to participate. Scary Tales by Bosch and Bruegel at Lumiere Hall In case you want to get a deeper insight into the world of art (way too deep, to my taste) and don’t mind some creepiness (a lot of creepiness, actually), consider visiting an exhibition featuring Dutch Renaissance painters Hi…

  16.01.2019

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

  …USSR aimed to challenge the resounding success of Space Shuttles by launching the Energia Buran space program in 1974. It was headed by an accomplished engineer Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, who also was the one to oversee the aforementioned Spiral project. He decided to fight the enemy with their own weapon, producing a huge reusable ship with the same payload capacity but…

  16.01.2019