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• Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material

  …Chitin In nature, chitin has a protective and supporting function; it is responsible for the rigidity of exoskeletons of insects and crustacean, as well as cell walls of fungi and bacteria. In this sense, it is similar to cellulose, which plays the same role in cell walls of plants. Yet, according to the data from Russian Chitin Society, chitin is far more reactiv…

  24.01.2017

• Gain Extra Points with Vkontakte

  …ocial network VKontakte. To participate, schoolers have to join the official online public page of the entrance competition, fill in the form and wait for the tasks. The interaction with a testing platform looks the same as if you chat with your friends in a social network. These conditions may seem like the perfect chance to cheat, but it will not work becaus…

  23.01.2017

• Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?

  …rt of the painting was. Using spectroscopy, we can track the chemical composition of pigments and their "chemical history", and find out their initial colors. Also, unanticipated reactions can happen as results of the effects of light, or with some particles brought from outside. For example, in 1920-s scientists discovered several paintings in Egypt — those were in…

  23.01.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …out of material that resembles the outer layer of heart tissue and it squeezes and twists simultaneously, like the real muscle, Science reports. In pigs, the device restored heart function to 97%. Quantum gas goes below absolute zero. Physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time, Nature reports. Their technique open…

  23.01.2017

• VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education

  …Oleg Harhordin, Head of the European University, believes that the idea of the 3.0 Universities is quite narrow and does not have to solve global issues like climate change or introduction of biotechnologies. According to him, a university of the future should not be a model startup incubator, but a treasurer of culture. Gaidar Forum. Credit: gaidarforum.ru …

  21.01.2017

• Top Tech Finds at CES 2017

  … "This year's show was all about connectivity — both in the form of the technologies unveiled and in the valuable face-to-face business connections happening throughout the show," said Karen Chupka, senior vice president, CES and corporate business strategy, CTA. Here are a few highlights: Toyota’s Concept-i car. Sleek and futuristic, it drives and parks its…

  20.01.2017

• Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV

  …s. The affected leukocyte becomes exhausted and dies. Gradually, the immune system loses too much leukocytes and stops working, so the infected person becomes unable to fight off infections. Different lethal diseases develop; the last stage of HIV is AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The current method of treating HIV is antiretroviral medication therapy…

  19.01.2017

• ITMO University Staff Win Government Award for Translational IT

  …gy and Research on Information-Driven Knowledge Alliance, analyses people’s behavior in critical situations, modeling the occurrence and development of such situations and makes predictions based on Big Data. In the field of urban studies at the University we are engaged in, for example modeling the movement of traffic flows and people during peak hours. This allows …

  18.01.2017

• From Julius Caesar to Now: Migraine Is More than Just a Headache

  … pain is ready to come back, as an attack can go off and appear again during several days. The background of migraine The first stage of the disease provokes cerebral vessel constriction — it means that vessels are susceptible to deformations. It causes ischemia, which is a restriction in blood supply that leads to a shortage of oxyge…

  18.01.2017

• Baltic Research Contest: Best Students, Great Opportunities

  …f the contest — the money will be spent on accommodating the participants who will come to BRC in the beginning of February. Last year, I presented my project in the Mathematics section. I've always been interested in algebraic problems, including unsolved ones. Still, the point of the contest is not to promote science to school students, but to teach them to pres…

  18.01.2017