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Movie Fridays: New Kids Rule The School
…any, the now-retired anime colossus Hayao Miyazaki chose to dedicate his swansong to one of his favorite children books: When Marnie Was There by the British author Joan G. Robinson. Another weird and wonderful Studio Ghibli experiment, Omoide no Mānī mixes a poetic coming-of-age story with a mysterious atmosphere of a good-quality ‘whodunit’ and weighty hamletian th…
10.08.2018
PyLadies: Python for Women
…omen being bad at programming. “Previously, there were more women in IT, but then they were pushed out by men. It’s hard to say for sure why it happened, but the fact remains that now there are very few women in tech. What is more, women often find it hard to work among men, especially in the very beginning, when they just start their career. But to become a pro…
10.08.2018
ITMO Researchers Publish Review on Perovskite Research
…rable efficiency losses. Periodic perovskite structures are produced using the cheapest technology of nanoimprint lithography which is widely used in the polymer industry. For instance, one can use it to produce photonic crystals or metasurfaces, i.e. planar structures with optical resonances. These are already being used for creating lasers with distributed feedback…
10.08.2018
Dire Straits and Silver Linings: a Syrian Student's Journey to ITMO
…yria there are five large universities with almost all areas of study. Each speciality has a separate faculty and building. However, in Russia, there are many universities and institutes, each offering different areas of study. The other major difference is that Syrian students are graded on a scale of 0-to-100, while in Russia they are graded out of 5. As a r…
09.08.2018
Profilaktika.Media - Russia’s First Media Project on Cancer
… still Master’s students in a science communication program, we discussed our future title’s structure, and decided on using a wide range of topics. By all means, oncology remains our main focus, but even this topic is now associated with many misconceptions and myths. Turning a blind eye to them would’ve been plain stupid. We still have few sources of information ab…
09.08.2018
MSU Student on Working in Different Laboratories and Doing Internship at ITMO
…erials. First, we planned to work on a three-dimensional display, but soon realized that it was not that simple. So we decided to develop a hydrophobic coating for solar cells instead. The coating can be compared to a lotus: if you let a drop of water fall onto the surface of the lotus leaf, the drop will stay right there, the leaf won’t absorb it,” says Alexander. “…
09.08.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 11-12
… have a chance to listen to a concert and watch lots of decorated boats cruising down the river. The show starts at 1 pm. Entrance is free. Or attend the Fontanka SUP Festival instead and see athletes in funny costumes surfing down the Fontanka under 14 bridges! The show kicks off at 10:30am and ends at 1:30pm. Entrance is free. This Sunday, the 300th Anniversary …
08.08.2018
Blood Nanofilters and Graphene Gas Sensors: “Big Challenges” Summer Camp
…ructure arrays. A simple UV diode is used as a radiation unit. Developing the photoresist deletes the spheres, which in its turn forms an array of micro or nanocavities,” explains Mikhail Zhukov. To proceed with this project, the students prepared a special room which they had to protect from external light exposure as this could have lead to changes in the…
08.08.2018
Researchers Developed Effective MR Coil for Preclinical Studies
…y. Currently, researchers plan to continue working on a variety of coils for various preclinical studies. Reference: Small‐animal, whole‐body imaging with metamaterial‐inspired RF coil. Mikhail Zubkov, Anna A. Hurshkainen et al. NMR in Biomedicine, 26 June 2018…
08.08.2018
Peterhof: a Perfect Spot for a Late Summer Trip
…rically, the founding of Peterhof dates back to the city's very first decades: its first canals were constructed in 1715. Originally, Peter the First planned to place 22 fountains along the waterway that would've been themed after Esop's fables. Still, the original concept changed many times, and it wasn't until the 19th century that the ensemble that we now know was…
07.08.2018