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• Five Things We Loved This Week

  …Perseid Meteor Shower. Why so intense? Three or more streams were on collision course with Earth, according to NASA. Meteors seen this year are actually from comet flybys that occurred hundreds if not thousands of years ago… Lots of shooting stars - hope you made lots of wishes! Who is your Olympic body match? Would you be a swimmer or a gymnast? BBC made an app t…

  14.08.2016

• Migraines May Be Caused by Vascular Reactivity

  …Most people occasionally suffer from headaches. However, in the majority of cases it is sufficient to take a painkiller and the pain goes away. Migraine patients are not so lucky. These people suffer from chronic headaches that cannot be relieved by pills. On top of it all, migraines are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, vision pro…

  12.08.2016

• Lenticular Images: Researchers Combine Art & Science

  …it seems that one can dive into the picture. Furthermore high resolution, high-grade color specification and picture size – the images are about 60x80cm – also enhance the illusion of depth. Professor Sergei Stafeev, Dean of Department of Natural Sciences, says: “Lenticular images are usually created using two methods. The first one is when one puts a plastic mi…

  11.08.2016

• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

  … one can check on Perseids activity online using this link. It's best to watch Perseids with a naked eye - binoculars, spy-glasses or telescopes will only narrow your vision. Still, bad weather or big city's illumination can spoil the whole view, so you'd better leave the city at sunset and go to a place with low or zero illumination. Hills, barrens and fields…

  11.08.2016

• ITMO University Welcomes New Students

  …ential students in comparison with the last year. More than 30% of the applications were sent in via the postal service. According to the results of Bachelor’s program admission campaign, by August 8th more than a thousand students have enrolled tuition-free. 3.4% of the first years were admitted to programs affiliated with Russia's high-tech industrial establishm…

  10.08.2016

• Scientists Count Microscopic Particles Without Microscope

  …ptical materials: photonic crystals and metasurfaces. In the study, they determined the lattice parameters, which define whether the light perceives the material as a two-dimensional photonic crystal or a metasurface. In both classes, the scattering particles (rings, balls, cylinders of 200-300 nanometers) are arranged in a flat lattice. However, in case of tw…

  09.08.2016

• Russia’s First Multi-Node Quantum Network: the Next Step for Quantum Communications of Tomorrow

  …ion lines. The new system connects two buildings of ITMO U via an optical fiber cable. In 2016, the media announced that the Russian Quantum Center provided a communication session between two bank branches in Moscow. According to Artur Gleim, the development of modern quantum communications infrastructure can be compared with the growth of Russian Internet from t…

  08.08.2016

• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …s of sensors. Apart from the usual accelerometer, barometer and compass, it will require a GPS set that will define the drones location, as well as a camera for its computer vision. Also, there are the transmitters for contacting the drone. By using the GPS set, the drone moves around the predefined map (GoogleMap, for instance). Still, different disturbances can sig…

  08.08.2016

• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  … like the address of your school back home. You have to send in your documents to Finland via the postal service. In Finland, these documents are first sent to a single admission committee in Helsinki. There, the documents are sorted, checked according to local regulations and then directed to the universities. I had to send copies of my passport and Specialist's d…

  08.08.2016

• 5 Things We Loved This Week

  …ring taking the pedestal. Nature Quantum computer getting closer. Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer. Phys.org Portable system to produce drugs on demand. Particularly relevant in remote locations and disaster a…

  06.08.2016