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• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …of the competition. The participants’ task here is to defend their invention and, in an open dialog with the judges, prove that it does pertain to scientific discovery, offers new methods of solving a specific problem, and has practical significance. In this way, contestants learn to build their scientific and business career. Generating consequential buzz among t…

  15.02.2019

• Grouchy Introvert's Valentine's Day Manifesto

  …because I know she secretly misses Jung and antisocial behavior, and I’m the perfect guinea pig for the former and example of the latter.) Also, gratitude? What kind of New Age gibberish is that? I’m already too millennial for my liking, what with my almond milk, penchant for avocado on toast and gazillion tote bags occupying every corner of my humble abode, w…

  14.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …e, gives it to his other chemist friend Nikolay Menshutkin, and leaves for then-Tverskaya province to inspect local creameries. Menshutkin issues the first announcement on the newly-discovered law on March 6 n.s. The thing was, Mendeleev wasn’t that happy with his work and believed that this was just the beginning and the real work was yet to come. The article pro…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …n drugs, which is why love is often compared to a drug-induced trance. Non-monogamous mice have an increased number of D1 receptors from the get-go and they don’t need to grow new ones, which is why they are able to switch between partners. The human brain maintains its own serotonin-dopamine balance: the more there is of the former, the less there is of the latte…

  14.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …nvironment. In today’s Western Europe, the construction industry accounts for 40% of landfill waste. Faced with the unsolved transport question, continuous exhaustion of non-renewable resources, population growth (especially significant in developing countries), and overconsumption of energy, people started thinking about making their lifestyles more eco-friendly. …

  13.02.2019

• 'All We Have to Do is Work Harder': Head of ITMO's Science and Technology Foresight on Bett-2019

  …more freedom. Thanks to various technologies and devices, today’s children are no longer meager participants of the educational process, but they are creators and come up with new things of their own. For example, a student can log onto some platform, write a bit of code and see how real devices interact with their code. This way, they learn how their actions in t…

  13.02.2019

• Romantic St. Petersburg

  …kov Canal, passing many of the city’s sights and crossing all three of St. Petersburg’s central waterways: the Moika and Fontanka rivers and the Griboedova Canal. Start at the New Holland Island and walk south, past the Naval Museum, the old and new stages of the Mariinsky Theater, the dashing St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral and all the wa…

  12.02.2019

• Start Your Career in IT: Career Guidance Hackathon at ITMO University

  …at they even hire people without any major projects to offer them. As the head of an ad agency, I would advise students to develop out-of-the-box thinking and learn to propose new innovative ideas. For example, you could write a code which is shorter that the previous one, or just aimed at solving a different task. One isn’t born with this kind of skill, but you can …

  12.02.2019

• Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO

  …d competition day, doubling the task for participants, who had to not only keep their cool and put their knowledge to best use, but also quickly bring themselves to adapt to a new team they were put into. “The main idea behind the onsite round is that it allows us to watch the students communicate and interact with each other in live-mode, as well as evaluate th…

  12.02.2019

• Just Ask: How Does New Cancer Consultation Service Work

  …alists does mean money. How many queries have been processed? According to the service’s authors, Prosto Sprosit found enormous support among both the regular public and news media. The service has been promoted by the likes of actors Irina Gorbacheva, Sergey Burunov and Dmitry Chebotarev and writer Alexander Tsypkin, who mentioned it on their blogs and social …

  11.02.2019