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• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …ites, one can create his own training program, or use a special application to get one by completing a test. The exercises mostly have to do with remembering particular sequences, reaction speed, determining similar objects, mental calculations, etc., and take about 15 minutes a day. For example, such services as Lumosity, Wikium, Neuronation offer games in which one…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …According to the paper published in Dalton Transactions, the new material belongs to the class of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) and has a crystalline structure comprising of iron clusters linked by organic ligands. The most apparent property of the resulting material is its giant porosity, which provides numerous active centers inside the crystal for the implementat…

  02.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …and, obviously, a concert where theme-based songs, like the songs about the Afghan War, will be played. An exhibition of equipage and armaments of the Airborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city authorities have been tryi…

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …tices is only one of possible areas to which one can apply games. For instance, “EyeWire” was developed to create 3D map of eye retina’s neurons. Instead of games with some useful functions currently one discusses gamification of common processes connected with education, work and other everyday issues. We don’t have to be afraid of virtual games, we should adopt the…

  02.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  …to influence the educational process. Here, we can mention the third task, which implies the development of modern forms of education – the individualization of education, the introduction of distant education methods, etc. Which of the Master’s Degree programs correlate with the National Technology Initiative, the tendencies in the market and the educational sphe…

  01.08.2016

• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  …es on the rise and an increasing popularity, it is becoming clear that the potential for VR goes far beyond gaming. Ever since the appearance of Oculus Rift in 2014, the Video360Production project started using these technologies and it has already been widely tested in the field of culture, art, tourism and has identified several promising areas, including education…

  01.08.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  … “The institutions and countries we examine have increased their contribution to a selection of top natural science journals — a metric known as weighted fractional count (WFC) — from 2012 to 2015. In the competitive world of academic publishing, these are the players to watch.” explain the authors of the rankings. As mentioned by…

  29.07.2016

• Look at Neptune and Visit a Warship: St. Petersburg Continues to Celebrate Navy Day

  …rnaya Square, with its' headliners — "Pravada," "Monolisa," "Midgy," "Myths" and other rock bands. 11.00 pm All visitors can admire wonderful fireworks in Yakornaya Square. Get directions Bus № 101 leaves from Staraya Derevnya subway station (5th "violet" line) Minibus № 405 leaves from Chernaya Rechka subway station (2nd "blue" line) Minibus № 407 leaves from P…

  29.07.2016

• Virtual Reality Technologies: What to Expect in the Foreseeable Future?

  …t are generally off-limits to the public. There is also a VR project about the Hermitage cats, their daily life at the museum, and one that allows to see the famous Peacock Clock in action. We’ve also launched a project with the Solovetsky Monastery. Actually, the monks there enjoy using VR-gadgets. The modern progress of VR technologies is irreversible: a new gen…

  28.07.2016

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …sor at Johns Hopkins University, in alliance with his colleagues published their results in Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers studied the health condition and cognitive functions of male physicians aged 65 years and older. Some of them suffered from cardiovascular diseases or previously had heart attacks. The patients were divided into two groups – placebo…

  27.07.2016