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• New Technologies Make Energy Safe and Effective

  …about a million different quinones, before to create a new class of battery electrolyte material. According to them, it expands the possibilities of what scientists can do. Instead of metal ions used as conventional battery electrolyte materials they used acidic electrolytes with quinones, molecules that store energy in plants and animals. Hinted at this way by na…

  28.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Makes it to Top-3 Russian Universities

  …sult also changed ITMO’s position in Russia-only rankings, now being second only to Ural Federal University. The changes in the ranking indicators speak for themselves. For instance, the visibility indicator played an essential role in improving ITMO’s position. For this significant indicator that has to do with external inlinks and the number of their referred we…

  28.07.2016

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

  …r the industry, as many of our developers supply foreign markets with VR-content. During the last five years, about 5 billion dollars was invested into VR technologies. For instance, there is the VR-Tech fund in Russia that has been buying out whole project teams, many of which participate and win some of the best VR competitions on a regular basis. There hasn’t b…

  28.07.2016

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …made pharmaceutical industry nervous Having analyzed how long-term multivitamin supplementation affects cognitive health in later life Edgar Miller, professor 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 a…

  27.07.2016

• Cyborg Olympics Exploiting the Power of Technology

  … members of society. Modern technology gives this confidence.” said engineer Vasiliy Khlebnikov, one of the founders of Skolkovo’s “Motorica”. With this principle in mind, and inspired by the International Cybathlon to be held in October in Zurich, Mr. Khlebnikov and co-founder of “Motorica”, Ilya Chekh, ITMO University’s graduate, were ins

  27.07.2016

• Getting Close to Nanostructures

  …nd are used for their own particular tasks; all in all, they complement each other well. Mikhail Zhukov, a graduate of the Chair of Nanotechnologies and Materials Science explains that one of the unique benefits of probe microscopes are that you can work with biological specimens in their native (live) state, while cutting their surface and manipulating nano-objects …

  26.07.2016

• Exchange Semester in Switzerland Turns into a Two-Year Master’s Program

• Forum for Strategic Initiatives: Experts Look Towards the Future

  …his can become the new direction for the realization of ITMO’s Art&Science cluster - hi-end technologies and automation are in demand among those who run such projects, - explains Ms. Egoshina. “Another interesting topic was the new classification of countries by Yevgeni Kuznetsov based on the principles of their inner technological development. There were also …

  26.07.2016

• Time to Register For Russia’s First Online Science Communication Course

  …e created with the help of reputed science communicators such as Egor Zadereev who has a Ph.D. in biology, is a science writer and blogger and also Scientific Secretary at the Institute of Biophysics SB RAS; Alexandra Borisova who has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, is the founder and head of popular scientific web-portal chrdk.ru (TASS) and founder of Moscow instead of mangers, lawyers and banks What if one would automate all paperwork processes? If yes this area will not need banks, lawyers and managers who serve as agents as well as assist and…

  25.07.2016