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• Science Film for the Modern Viewer

  …atov presented his film “Effect of Rhenium” about an expedition to the site of the discovery of the rare metal rhenium in a volcano on the island of Iturup. As he himself explains, festivals such as this are an opportunity for filmmakers to meet their audience. “People who come to film festivals aren’t always ready for science films. Today’s audiences are mo…

  23.10.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …Why still no contact with alien civilizations? Icy oceans on other plants might be to blame, according to Science. “Most extraterrestrial creatures are likely deep inside their home planets, in subsurface oceans crusted over in frozen water ice. The hypothesis could explain the lack of signals from other technologically advanced civilizations, especially if they thin…

  23.10.2017

• Safety, Resource Conservation and New Motivation Solutions - What Laboratories of the Future Should Look Like

  …care of that. Such changes are already being introduced into the pharmaceutical industry, which, from my experience, is always at the forefront of laboratory development.  For instance, many of these technologies are already applied in pharmaceutical production lines,” – says Mr. Antunes Pinto. Russia’s first conference on laboratory space design will take place…

  20.10.2017

• CityNext Head Alexander Danilin: How Smart Tech Changes Life of Cities

  … to providing software and other interactions, which have already become traditional. However, we know significantly less about the partnership between Microsoft and different institutions, including universities, in the line of developing “smart” cities. Tell us about this form of partnership. I have come here to discuss topics connected to the project ITMO Unive…

  20.10.2017

• ITMO Students Gear Up For Convoluted Machine Competition

  … motion to another. The initial impulse is usually given by a human, who starts the chain of energy transfer: pushes a ball, swings a pendulum, knocks a brick off a shelf, for instance. What matters is that the actions follow one another and the elements not use any external power sources – although the mechanisms may employ batteries. The concept originated in th…

  19.10.2017

• Doctor Yang Bai: “Now, We Can Collect Energy From Light, Motion, AND Heat At The Same Time”

  … and the surrounding world's very nature. When we design something, we know that the structure can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. We know that symmetry looks good, for instance, in architecture or butterflies. Yet, asymmetry is good as well - we can see it all around us (take the Savior on Spilled Blood or Apple's logo). What's more, even we, people, are asym…

  19.10.2017

• Open Innovations: Future According to Jack Ma and Michio Kaku

  …d the “Digital Economy” program and established a management system for it. A dialogue between the state and businesses has been initiated in several areas: this includes, for instance, human resources, education, creation of research competencies, information infrastructure and security. For each of these areas, working groups have been formed,” – he said. He a…

  18.10.2017

• Relocation Tips: Where to Grab a Bite Between Classes

  …420 rubles - on the other hand, guests get to try freshly caught fish and seafood from the Barentz sea, delivered straight from Murmansk.  Average bill: 600-1000 rubles. Sytninskaya ul., 14. ITMO on Lomonosova 9 Falafel King: one of the city's oldest falafel joints, the small café serves a variety of Middle Eastern food. Among the highlights are: several…

  17.10.2017

• ITMO University Enters THE Engineering and Technology Ranking

  …he Scopus authors polled by THE – 21%. Despite a slight decrease, the score for evaluating educational activity, in which the questionnaire component is measured at 19.5%, remains high: the second result after MSU among Russian universities. Also, the country’s leaders in education show traditionally high results on incomes from industry. Here MIPT, MEPhI, Lomonosov …

  17.10.2017

• Silicon Valley Insights: 8 Global Trends in Tech

  …Technologies are now constantly finding new areas of application. More importantly, we can see that it takes less and less time for them to integrate. For instance, on the US market, new technologies are adopted in no more than five to six years. The way companies work changes, too. Over the years, 500 Startups has financed more than seven hundred startups all ove…

  17.10.2017