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• ITMO and Mel Science Launch Affiliate Program for Kids

  …e with an educational app that allows the children to explore the compounds used in the experiments as 3D models, as well as learn more about the related topics or check their new knowledge by passing tests. The company has two offices, in St. Petersburg and London, and has been acknowledged as one of the most interesting and educational chemical projects accordin…

  06.03.2018

• Science Slam: Dark Matter and Liquid Batteries for Electric Vehicles

  …to improve them and make them liquid. So we took all the active substances – cathode, anode and electrolyte, added some starch and made liquid electrodes. How does this new battery work? Positive and negative electrode materials cannot mix, so they have to be stored in separate tanks. But at the same time they should interact with each other. So we made our ba…

  05.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  … concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was very high, then it gradually diminished in the course of the following 50 million years. Nowadays, humanity has become a new geological force, as it releases the carbon accumulated in fossil fuels back into the atmosphere. Research shows that global warming manifests inside the troposphere - the part of the at…

  05.03.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …Edible electronics cookies? Scientists report that they have developed a way to write graphene patterns onto virtually any surface including food. They say the new technique could lay the groundwork for the edible electronics capable of tracing the progression of foods from farm to table, as well as detecting harmful organisms that can cause gastric distress. Aque…

  05.03.2018

• Mining Hardware Helps Scientists Gain Insight into Silicon Nanoparticles

  …olleagues performed calculations on a computer with graphics accelerators. Such computers are often used for cryptocurrency mining. However, we decided to enrich humanity with new knowledge, rather than enrich ourselves. Besides, bitcoin rate had just started to go down then,” adds Konstantin. Devices based on these nanoparticles may become basic elements of opt…

  02.03.2018

• Dmitry Moscovich, CIO at Gazprom Transgaz Saint-Petersburg, on Introducing IT Systems at Enterprises

  … as means for sustaining their standard business processes; few perceive them as an opportunity to gain competitive advantage. When you are improving the system and developing new algorithms, you should already be looking for ways to reorganize business processes so that they would become more effective. What’s more, many customers can’t properly explain what they…

  02.03.2018

• ITMO University’s Business Incubator Named Among World’s Best

• Mapping the City: ITMO Students Launch New Urban Development Project

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 3-4

  …nternet Age, which brought together street artists from Russia, the USA, Japan, Spain, Italy, and other countries. The project aims to study how the subculture that emerged in New York in the 70’s adapts to the conditions of the modern world. Another most curious exhibition is Disciplinary Spaces in Erarta, which is dedicated to the concepts of freedom, control, a…

  28.02.2018

• ITMO University Climbs 100 Positions in QS Computer Science & Information Systems Subject Ranking

  …, as well as specialized rankings for specific disciplines. This year, World University Rankings by Subject 2018 evaluated 1,130 universities from 151 countries. It also added new subjects: Classics and Library Management and now features 48 subjects and five general subject areas. Its last ranking evaluated universities from 74 countries in 46 subjects. QS uses a me…

  28.02.2018