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• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …Mysterious humans lived alongside our ancestors. The new fossils reinforce a picture of a small-brained, small-bodies creature - homo nadeli - that lived around 236,000 to 335,000 years ago, at the same time as modern humans were emerging in Africa and Neandertals were evolving in Europe.   Earth’s forests grew 9%. Using ultra-high-resolution Google Earth imagery,…

  15.05.2017

• “People Need You!” Contest: Social Entrepreneurship for Children

  …s a current one; they brought up statistical data, experts’ opinions, referred to standardized documents. Secondly, we look at how fully the schoolchildren have employed their newly acquired skills when implementing their project” – said Svetlana Ushakova, manager at Social Design and Entrepreneurship Center, Participants at "People Need You!" Team from Sch…

  12.05.2017

• ITMO and Finland's XAMK University Strengthen Relationship

  …um of Understanding between ITMO University’s School of Translational Information Technologies and South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. The first step of this new partnership will be the staging of an International Young Scientists Conference in the field of high-performance computing and simulation. The purpose of the conference, which is held an…

  12.05.2017

• ITMO University and Kazan Quantum Center Launch the First Multinode Quantum Network in CIS

  …Toshiba) and China. The pilot segment of the Kazan quantum network that connected two nodes was tested in August 2016; now, the network unites all the four nodes, and a new data transfer protocol that is optimized for the city's infrastructure has been introduced. The network makes use of the city's existing optical fiber communication lines of the Tattelekom …

  11.05.2017

• Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters

  …he results of this work have fundamental influence on the methods of “manipulating” light? We’ll be using the megagrant to facilitate the research into semiconductors and a new atom-thick material the properties of which would allow to effectively manipulate light in waveguides. We’ll study ways to strengthen the interaction between light and matter as well as to …

  11.05.2017

• Concurrency In Life - Practical Advice From Roman Elizarov

  …ecame interested in exact sciences at an early age. Since childhood, he participated in numerous math contests, and when a computer class opened at his school, his life took a new turn. That was back in the late 80s, when computers were still a novelty - at that time, it was hard to imagine how dramatically computers can change our lives. Yet, Roman straightly fell i…

  10.05.2017

• Psychophysiologist Alexander Kaplan: Why Elon Musk is Weaving “Neural Lace” and Will AI Help Conserve Resources for Human Brain?

  …with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” – wrote in his Twitter the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk. In April of this year the famed entrepreneur unveiled a new company called Neuralink that will develop systems aimed at making humans more intelligent and protecting them from being enslaved by artificial intelligence. Per its founders’ design, such…

  10.05.2017

• Coordinating Blood Banks and Organizing International Summer Camps - How One Develops Social and Ecological Projects?

  … done manually. Andrei Zlenko and Roman Malushkin "Each year, we have to deal with these nuances. Thus, we faced the necessity to improve the system, shares Roman. Our new service stands on "three whales" - firstly, it's the system for the personnel of blood banks, where they can see each donor's profile - their blood type, sex, weight, how often do they dona…

  10.05.2017

• “Edible Science” Course: How to Cook a Modernist Dish and Learn About All Colors of Potato

  …he five steps to making perfect French fries, boiled potatoes in various solutions and discussed the plant’s color, texture, composition and reactions to various stimuli. This new knowledge allowed them to perform several experiments, such as changing the potato’s color,and helped them understand why certain breeds of this root plant vary in color. And, lastly, the s…

  05.05.2017

• Alexander Boukhanovsky Elected to Russian Science Foundation Review Board

  …ation of a cohesive research team that can not only solve complex scientific tasks, but also teach others to do it. After all, one of the foundation’s core goals is to attract new researchers, approaches and knowledge into science. “One has to admire the assessment system set up at RSF. The way the examination form is structured, filled and evaluated makes it so…

  05.05.2017