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• Bioinformatic Contest 2017: The Results

  …ould solve at least one task, and even less got into the finals". Next year, the event's organizers plan to continue with the contest, though there will be a need to develop new tasks; bionformatics institutions and companies that do corresponding research may be of help here. We'd like to note that such contests are something new …

  07.03.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  …four years and then won a grant by the Government of the USA and received a position in the U.S. Department of Energy. I studied and analyzed government solutions related to renewable energy sources and worked as a science communicator in this field. I started using social networks to share about activities of the Department and what happens in the field of energetic…

  06.03.2017

• New SAP Lab at ITMO Gives Students a Chance to Work on Real Projects

  …ts own R&D. In addition, SAP collaborates with universities and research centers to create innovative projects to solve the problems of their clients. SAP Next-Gen Lab is a new initiative set up on the basis of SAP University Alliance, which is a system in place where special laboratories are opened at universities in which design teams work on tasks for customers…

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  …re example is AlphaGo, a program which beat Li Sedol, a guru of Go game that was considered as extremely difficult for a computer during a long period. Li Sedol Credit: newyorker.com Look at this picture. There is a human who feels like he loses. Why do we think that AlphaGo cannot be a full-fledged AI? Because it doesn’t enjoy the win or doesn’t sympathize…

  06.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …yo development is of interest because this knowledge may help explain why more than two out of three human pregnancies fail at this time. 3D printing with plants. Thanks to new research at MIT, cellulose may become an abundant material to print with -- potentially providing a renewable, biodegradable alternative to the polymers curre…

  06.03.2017

• Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"

  …rare fit of attention to scientific work, the findings were reported by a variety of mainstream media around the world, from the British Daily Mail and Independent, to Science News and New York Post. Beyond the celebrity appeal, the research can have a wide range of applications. For example, recruiters can learn more about people wh…

  06.03.2017

• Gamification: How to Learn the Periodic Table While Playing Battleship

  …ame is about how specialists from different fields cooperate to solve global problems of seas and oceans, or the ITMO Technologies game that aims to teach students work in the new technology market. A good example of a game concept is combining the Periodic table with the Battleship game when you use the table as layout. It is a simple, but really effective instru…

  03.03.2017

• Delicacy for Sportsmen- How to Eat Ice-Cream and Build Muscle

  …ike fructose, sorbitol and xylitol. Under the supervision of Lyudmila Nadtochiy, associate professor of the Department of Applied Biotechnology, Malika started to develop a new original recipe of ice-cream, so as to make it as tasty as the usual one but at the same time healthy and low-calorie. She used protein as the main component, reduced carbohydrates and lipi…

  03.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  …advocates of the radical "scientific creationism". At the same time, most scientists regard this concept as pseudo-scientific, as it cannot be verified or falsified. In the new article on history of science, researchers from University of Jena and ITMO University compared how the relations between evolutionary theory and the society in USA and Russia, both modern …

  02.03.2017

• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  …ic three years ago, I would have declared that society had to join the process of scientific development and participate in making decisions about the necessity of any kind of new technology. It is a sociological task for science communication. However, as of now, science-society interaction goes down, as people don’t trust experts. The more an expert works in any fi…

  02.03.2017