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• 13th Baltic Science and Engineering Competition: From Small Discoveries to Great Accomplishments

  …ticipants had a tour of the "nanoscale world" from the PhD students at the Department of Nano-Photonics and Metamaterials. The children also visited a presentation on growing multifunctional crystals and took part in an interactive game inspired by Star Wars. The exhibition of projects occupied two halls at ITMO’s building on Lomonosova, 9. During the whole day, the…

  01.02.2017

• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …In 1714, Peter I’s collections and library were brought from Moscow to St. Petersburg, which is why it is believed to be the year of Kunstkammer's founding. Yet, no one ever found any corresponding document, so there's a good chance that it never existed. What's more, initially the collection was kept in a different place — the Emperor'…

  31.01.2017

• Science for Whetting Your Appetite

  …Experts project aimed at attracting talented young people. The duration of the school is seven months. The first part of the project includes lectures on biotech basics and food production (from October till February), the second one will be devoted to research projects (from January till April). Then the participants will take part in forums and conferences includin…

  31.01.2017

• Small and Smaller: Micro- and Nanoscale Robotics Can Help Doctors and Ecologists

  …Harvard University made a soft robot called octobot. The most challenging issue was to make the robot move without its hard shell. They created a pneumatic-based model. A chemical reaction inside the robot turns a small amount of hydrogen peroxide into a large amount of gas, which flows into the octobot’s arms and makes them move. The researchers at Columbia Unive…

  30.01.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …ics Online reports. Their so-called "high peak power laser" has a 1,000-watt average power output, a benchmark of sustained, high-energy pulses. Safer, more efficient uranium extraction. The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers a…

  30.01.2017

• Creating Quartz-Based Nanocomposites: ITMO’s New International Collaboration

  …The general idea of the project is to create structures that can become functional elements for micro- and optofluidics, "laboratories-on-a-chip" and microanalytical systems. Optofluidics is a science about using light to control micro-flows of fluids, and is quite promising in such fields as fast diagnostics. A good example of a microanalytical system is a gas senso…

  27.01.2017

• Wild Potato for the Welfare of Cultivated Vegetables

  …Usually interaction of plants and bacteria leads to diseases that provoke harvest failures or make vegetables rot very fast when they are in warehouses. However plants can "be friends" with microorganisms. Romain Darriaut studied such microorganisms at ITMO. Such a research is necessary to find microorganisms that "collaborate" with plants and then use them as com…

  26.01.2017

• New Priorities in Education: A Press Conference by the Minister of Education

  …rities — those would be not developing science for the purpose of science, but using it for improving the quality of life, food products, development of personalized medicine, construction methods, residential design and so on", explains the minister. There were 30 pilot projects on opening engineering centers at universities launched in collaboration with the Mini…

  26.01.2017

• Hidden Treasures of Saint Petersburg — Gatchina

  …House, plain on the outside but never judge it by the way it looks, the Mask Portal, the Echo Grotto, as well as many bridges, gardens and great stone gates are only some of its attractions. You can also rent a boat and have a tour around the park, as it’s situated on a lake complex (the boat station is closer to the park’s far end). Both Palace and park often hos…

  24.01.2017

• Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business

  …second name and the name of the programming language Haskell. The main idea is to make this language popular — we want to show that it can be used at an industrial scale and for production. Nowadays this language is not as popular as C++ and Java. Many people believe that Haskell is a very difficult language used for math calculations. However I like this development…

  24.01.2017