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• Scientists Designed Nanocontainers for Bacterial Metabolism Control

  … be used for controlled drug delivery. In the near future, researchers are about to test the system created on solid bacterial environment, as well as to use new bacterial strains. For example, strains whose radiation can sterilize the environment from the inside. “This research is important since we …

  22.11.2018

• Beautiful Physics: ITMO Scientist Wins Award of Wikipedia’s Science Photo Competition

  …c tissues: unlike X-rays, terahertz radiation doesn’t cause a harmful ionization of tissues and is therefore considered the safest contact-free method for tissue imaging, explains Semyon Smirnov. Although some devices capable of working in the terahertz frequency band have already entered the market, their effectiveness is still not enough for them to be used on an i…

  22.11.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 24-25

  … Calvin Klein, to name just a few. This exhibition will help you see the journey the fashion world has made over the past three decades, from classic fabrics and traditional painstaking handwork to ultra-modern materials and innovative technologies. Tickets to the General Staff building cost 400 rubles and can be purchased here. This weekend, the traditional St. P…

  21.11.2018

• Inkjet Printers Can Produce Cheap Micro-Waveguides for Optical Computers

  …ntists from ITMO University have developed an alternative method for creating optical micro-waveguides. It is based on a common inkjet technology. Waveguide printing begins with the preparation of special ink. Its main ingredient is a suspended solution, or sol, of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. This material was chosen due to its high refractive index, which…

  21.11.2018

• Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons

  …What kind of research do you do with your team in Tel Aviv? We have been working on two main topics: nonlinear topics and Bose-Einstein condensates. On the one hand, these are completely different topics; the former concerns optical physics, while the latter pertains to atomic physics. But they have much in common in regards the theo…

  21.11.2018

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Classicism

  … celebrate the elegance and glory of the biggest European country. The Russian Classical architecture was very much influenced by the European one, which, in its turn, drew inspiration from Antiquity with its classical orders, symmetrical plans and façades and the use of other conventional features such as pediments, porticos, pilasters and so on. Among the first …

  20.11.2018

• The Secret Life of Plants

  …tatic forest, plant succession specialists see a single frame from a never-ending film. Succession is the gradual change of one community of living organisms into another. For instance, in just a few years, a pine forest can transform into a fir forest. These changes happen under the influence of various internal and external factors. Successions can be of two kin…

  20.11.2018

• Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark

  …d on university campuses and special-purpose buildings. This includes campus designs for the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Medical University of Vienna, the Institute of Mathematics and the International Graduate School in Model and Simulation of the Technical University of Berlin, the campus master plan for College of Technology (Giessen, Germany)…

  20.11.2018

• WUD@ITMO: Ending the Dispute Between Developers and Designers

  …nd a week on the couch recovering? It would be ideal if each human had a personal trainer guiding them throughout their life, but this is obviously unrealistic. What we can do instead though is create supporting devices and boost our clothing with special interfaces,” highlights Vladimir. “That is the goal of the BetterSelf project we’re carrying out in our lab. To c…

  20.11.2018

• Feel Local in Russia (and Anywhere)

  … experience in and of itself, but most of the frequent travelers we asked said they’d rather stay with the locals or rent an apartment. Maria Rudnev, based in USA, commented: “Instead of going to Rome, I went to Torino. I rented AirBnB for three weeks away from downtown. Although it’s a famous city, most people don’t speak English. I went to a local supermarket, spok…

  19.11.2018