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• Things to Do this Week(end): September 23-24

  …- only 200 rubles, and the event will definitely be worth your while. Well, all of the above may surely be great and enticing, yet all of those events involve spending time inside - and next weekend may well be this year’s last opportunity to enjoy some good weather! So, if you’re set on making the most of your weekend, we advise you to check out St. Petersburg’s …

  21.09.2017

• Bike Ride With Rector Goes National

  …vehicle of their liking, participants tried to chase after the University’s Rector. To him, the bike ride is far from a challenge – more like a light cardio, since he often begins his day by making a few laps around Yelagin Island. The seventh bike ride was continued by the staff of The International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, headed …

  21.09.2017

• How Music Affects Our Brain

  …eir entire life without ever listening to anything? These people exist, and they make up approximately five to seven percent of the planet’s population. To find out how the brains of those who don’t care for music work, scientists from McGill University (Canada) have scanned the brain activity of 45 healthy test subjects while the latter listened to music; some of th…

  20.09.2017

• Forester Soon to Hit the World Robot Olympiad in Costa Rica

  …ut couldn’t “walk” yet. By the time it got to the Russian competition, Forester could already walk. By the time it gets to the international exhibition, it’ll already have “brains”. "The boys created a neural network for the robot, with which it can identify tree species. Earlier, we used more primitive and unreliable methods. We’ve already improved the construc…

  20.09.2017

• Relocation Tips: Perks of Student Life in St. Petersburg (Part 2)

  …Movies The majority of cinemas and cinema chains in Russia offer discounts to all university students. Each one has different terms and conditions which you can inquire about on your own, but here are the offers from St. Petersburg’s major cinemas: Formula Kino (formulakino.ru) and Kronverk Cinema - 15% off for students (offer does not extend to IMAX show…

  19.09.2017

• METANANO-2017: International Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials held in Vladivostok

  … with a plenary session, each headlined by one of the several world-class scientists in the field of Photonics and Metamaterials. Among them are Mordechai (Moti) Segev (Israel Institute of Technology), Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong), Jeremy Baumberg (University of Cambridge, UK) and Franco Nori (RIKEN / University of Michigan, Japan / USA). “METANA…

  19.09.2017

• Ig Nobel Prize And How It Contributes To Science

  …e general public. So, the Ig Nobel prize is not a sneer at ridiculous research projects, but more of a self-depreciating celebration of curiosity and creative thinking. For instance, the most popular Ig Nobel award this year was in Physics, for proving that cats can be considered both liquid and solid: the prize winner, Marc-Antoine Fardin studied photographs of c…

  19.09.2017

• StudentsUP: New Program by Department of Youth Policy

  …n their activity is accessible via a common resource - ITMO.STUDENTS. "This is a new form of student self-governance, which will include all of the student clubs. For instance, we once had 12 different pages in VK, which reposted information from each other, and that was a total mess. Now, students have common access to all the information they need," shares…

  18.09.2017

• Journey to the Red Planet: New and Daring Projects for Mars Travel

  …tradict Newton’s Third Law, which makes a great number of scientists highly suspect of the concept. However, there is some evidence that may agree with the proposed idea – for instance, the fly-by anomaly, which is an unexpected energy increase during Earth fly-bys of spacecraft. Mars One Sometimes the desire to embark on a journey to the distant stars is expre…

  18.09.2017

• Voice Control Technologies: Machines That Really Listen

  …ands using the Amazon Echo device. LG Hub Robot LG Hub Robot supports Alexa voice control technology and can be used to convey commands to other Smart House systems. For instance, you can tell it to turn the conditioning on or launch a tumble dry cycle. The robot is fixed with an interactive display that can show all kinds of information, from the contents of t…

  15.09.2017