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• Solitons: Waves that Act Like Particles

  …Typical wave structures are not stable, as they sprawl out like ripples on water. Thanks to diffraction propagation and dispersion spreading light beams and impulses disperse in a homogenous medium. One can fix it by using light focusing with a nonlinear media. That is how "conservative" optical solitons work: they are stable light waves that are localized by a balan…

  07.11.2016

• The Communication Laboratory: How to Make Science Popular?

  …gy, a workshop on journalism by Nikolay Podorvaniuk, ex-head of Gazeta.ru's Science Affairs Department, a meeting with Alexander Gerber, supervisor of science communication session at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and other events. Accoding to Dmitry Malkov, Science Communication and Outreach Officer, an open and effective system for making science popul…

  07.11.2016

• Our New Powers: Time presented Top-50 Apps

  …ebsite for discussing news, as it has many sections that are called "subreddits" devoted to various topics. Here one can find useless but interesting facts, advice for all occasions, motivation and self-building guidances, experts' blogs, partners for language exchange programs, ideas for beginners in the field of coding and others. There are also other clients of re…

  03.11.2016

• USA Investor on Startups and Challenges Females Face in Business

  …g reservations on different quests. Also, a startup for making holograms on chocolates got a bonus SUMIT residency. The authors of these projects did best during a pitching session where they've presented their project to a jury.  …

  03.11.2016

• Hey, Buddy, What’s Up in Google?

  …, it gives an opportunity to get more information about its failures and errors. On the other hand, we can understand what we have to work on. It is essentially that any version of any browser has errors. The reason is very simple: there are no faultless processes and completely perfect coders. Nobody is perfect! About accommodation Montreal is a very beautiful …

  02.11.2016

• Math Problems Are a Hard Nut to Crack

  …olution is, the more points are given to a participant. "To train participants for these contests, experts use various methods. For instance, ITMO University’s training sessions are based on suballocated approach — experts in different fields of mathematics such as analytic geometry, linear algebra, math analysis, game and number theories, — they teach students h…

  02.11.2016

• Chirality: The Property That Changes It All

  …ngs are chiral. So, chirality is widespread in both living organisms and inanimate nature", explains Ivan Rukhlenko, head of the Laboratory. According to the scientist, dimensional configuration of molecules can be left- and right-sided. As biomolecules are chiral, their interactions with organisms greatly depend on it. This is essential, as hundreds of drugs used …

  02.11.2016

• Nuclear Accident Prevention — ITMO’s Graduate Elaborates New Method

  …he water transforms into steam, which then goes into a turbine generator and thus electricity is produced (you can see the info-graphics here, or read it on wikipedia). The fission material used in reactors comes in form of pellets, that are put in the so-called rods. Those are then assembled into bundles. In case of a reload, the processed fuel is taken from the rea…

  01.11.2016

• Cancer Detection: How To Stay Out of Harm’s Way

  …ause cancer, could no longer survive in food products. So, this shows that generally, neither the physicians, nor the media can affect cancer morbidity. Still, there are exclusions: for instance, the promotion of tobacco control that led to lung cancer morbidity decreasing. As for secondary prevention and early detection, one has to be careful about it. One's inte…

  31.10.2016

• 5 Cool and Spooky Finds

  …cientists does it take to carve a pumpkin? NASA hosted a pumpkin carving contest that produced some spectacularly spooky contraptions. Our favorite? A Martian Sample Return Mission… Diamonds are forever but what about data? A new method uses lasers to probe the gem’s flaws and create data storage that could potentially last forever. Is Black Moon this Halloween…

  31.10.2016