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• 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

• 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