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• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …ng method, which researchers previously employed to print hyperelastic "bone", 3D graphene and carbon nanotubes, and metals and alloys. Energy harvesting from waste heat. A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one day make it possible to collect waste heat at infrared wavelengths and turn it i…

  17.04.2017

• Gutenberg's Lounge: Why Stonehenge is an Observatory, How Satellites Stay on the Orbit and Where One Starts His Way to Mars

  …Stonehenge being a sun temple as well, something like a primitive observatory that helped track time and the movement of celestial bodies. Another ancient monument - Ireland's Newgrange - can also well be a sun temple. It is a giant burial mound with a tunnel; on December 21, the sun lights it in such a way that the tunnel and the room at its end are filled with brig…

  14.04.2017

• ITMO University Gets Into TOP-3 Russian Universities for Quality of Its English Website

  …ot English. The websites' content was reviewed based on 16 conceptual blocks. The blocks correspond to the typical sections of university web portals: "About the university", "News", "Graduates", "Mission" and the like. For each block, there was a range of questions one had to answer "yes" or "no" to. All in all, there were 108 questions, and a positive answer got a …

  14.04.2017

• ITMO’s Researcher to Boost Immune Response Using Computer Science

  …m is the set of chemical transformations whose products are called metabolites. The phenomenon of metabolites is poorly studied – recently, the international team discovered a new function of the metabolite called itaconate, which acts as an anti-inflammatory agent in macrophages. To understand what an immune reaction is, one needs to figure out the whole metaboli…

  14.04.2017

• St. Petersburg Landmarks - The Secret History of Mikhailovsky Castle

  …ndants count Pahlen and a group of conspirators - struck with a sword, strangled and then beaten to death. After his death, his son Alexander acceded to the throne. Alexander knew of the conspiracy, so his father’s death haunted him to the end of his life; he moved the imperial residence back to the Winter Palace, and the castle was handed over to a military engineer…

  13.04.2017

• Innovations for Everybody: How Young Inventors Patent their Projects

  …inventions into the market. The contest includes a wide range of nominations, as everybody can take part, not only authors of technical solutions – it can be everything from a new sports game or an outfit to a unique design project,” mentions, Alexey Kamensky. The School Patent Contest Here are several examples of interesting projects that received prizes…

  13.04.2017

• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  …n what has to do with the educational process? Charles-Henri Poirot, TélécomParisTech, France: At first, I found lectures in Russia unusual, as the lecturers do not explain new material in detail. They share about the topic's general aspects, and then ask you to do some project so that you have to find additional materials yourself. Yet, I like that, as you learn …

  13.04.2017

• "Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green

  … projects and initiatives. As Kristina Shteker, the center's representative, notes, it is more like an incubator where lecturers, scientists and students experiment and select new approaches for creating a university that follows the concept of sustainable development. University of Hamburg "We started with reorganizing the cafeteria, and then went on. As of …

  12.04.2017

• MathCompetitions: Experienced Participants Answer FAQ

  …ude problems that have no typical solutions, and participants have to look for extraordinary ones using their ingenuity. There is a plenty of strategies for solving them. ITMO.NEWS talked to the participants of the Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition who shared about how to manage the time during such contests and what kinds of problems have to be s…

  12.04.2017

• King of the Ring: ITMO Sportsmen win the Student MMA League