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• 5 Science News Now

  …NASA’s lander to probe interior of Mars. NASA has sent orbiters to study the atmosphere of Mars and rovers to study its surface. Now, the agency plans to look inside the planet. The $814 million InSight lander, due to launch next month, carries three instruments designed to peer through Mars's rusty shell,…

  23.04.2018

• ITMO University Launches New Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Program

  …informatics and systems biology methods in solving a wide range of tasks from different fields, from fundamental research to clinical practice and industrial applications. For instance, computer aided techniques and statistical methods can be used in DNA sequence assembly, studying the functions of genes, predicting the properties of proteins<…

  20.04.2018

• Irina Hussainova: Estonian “Scientist of the Year”

  …pecifically genetic engineering, but it became clear to me that I could not work with blood and a living body. So I chose my university at random, you might say. Or even against my own judgment, because my way of thinking and character are more humanitarian that anything else. I decided, however, that everyone should know foreign languages and literature and it is…

  20.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …ricity. The University of Surrey's tool gives manufacturers an accurate understanding of the output power their design would create once produced. Regulation of digital remains? From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people's social media footprints' to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become…

  20.04.2018

• ITMO University Online Courses You Can't Miss

  …ons, localized surface plasmon resonances, bulk plasmon-polaritons, applications of plasmonics. Every section consists of 10 video lectures of about 5-7 minutes each, and self instructional materials. This course is aimed at both Russian and international students majoring in physics and having basic knowledge of electrodynamics and solid state physics. The cou…

  19.04.2018

• Russia Secures ACM ICPC-2018 World Champion Title

  …or the 42nd time. The 2018 contest is certainly a stand-out. Since 2012, the World Cup was consistently taken by two universities of St. Petersburg - ITMO University (four wins since 2012) and St. Petersburg State University (two wins since 2012). ACM ICPC-2018, although not the best year for the two leaders, has revealed a new “star…

  19.04.2018

• Scientists “Hack” Regulatory Mechanism of Immune Cell Activity

  …elp of this substance and its derivatives. Scientists have found that both itaconate and its derivative dimethyl-itaconate actively connect to thiol groups of cellular proteins and other molecules. This process activates electrophilic stress but deactivates the genes of the inflammatory response. As a result, the synthesis of key inflammatory mediators (cytokines …

  19.04.2018

• City of Professions: Career Day at ITMO University

  …rs, testers and other specialists. According to the company’s representatives, the bank has several fields of activities that the students will find most easy to tap into. For instance, there is a demand for analysts (business technologists) whose job is to come up with new banking products and new features for existing ones, communicate with developers and testers, …

  18.04.2018

• Open Day at The Faculty of Physics and Engineering

  …g as “local” science, because science is always global”, said Mikhail Petrov, vice-dean of The Faculty of Physics and Engineering. The Faculty collaborates with the Ioffe Institute. Bachelor’s students study mathematics, theoretical and applied physics, as well as learn how to use software programs necessary for their research. Teachers also work to involve s…

  18.04.2018

• Results of European Parliament Discussion on Robot Economy

  …otics market grows by 8-9% annually, and the amount of robotics in the services industry is expected to increase by 25%, said Fabio Bonsignorio, a professor at the Biorobotics Institute at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Humanity is advancing towards the fourth industrial revolution with the Internet of Things, new jobs and communication technolo…

  18.04.2018