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• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  … chairs without a back and office chairs on wheels also aren’t suitable. There are some designs with private booths with speakers but these don’t really work in an educational institution.  So to design and create the right furniture for what we need, we invited colleagues from the Department of Furniture Design at the Stieglitz Academy. Now we already have a prototy…

  01.08.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …e spines protruding from their dorsal plates. SciNews. New UNESCO sites. UNESCO added 21 new cultural, natural and mixed sites in 2016. They include Western Tien Shan mountains in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,  Gorham’s Caves in UK and works of modern architect Le Corbusier. UNESCO. Beer tastes better with music.  Just in time for summer festivals, the…

  30.07.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  … “The institutions and countries we examine have increased their contribution to a selection of top natural science journals — a metric known as weighted fractional count (WFC) — from 2012 to 2015. In the competitive world of academic publishing, these are the players to watch.” explain the authors of the rankings. As mentioned by the Nature Index of Rising Sta…

  29.07.2016

• Look at Neptune and Visit a Warship: St. Petersburg Continues to Celebrate Navy Day

  …rafts, anti-submarine warfares and minesweepers — all thes boats will take part in the event. Furthermore Navy Day 2016 will be the first time when patrol ship Admiral Essen joins the parade. Those ships that are alongside the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment will be open for visitors from 14.30 to 20.00! 7.00 pm. Palace Square turns into an open air area open to ever…

  29.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Is Making its Way to the Top

  …includes Lomonosov Moscow State university (186th position), St. Petersburg State University (557th position), Novosibirsk State University (722th), Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (901th), ITMO University (905th) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (921th). Several days ago Webometrics Ranking Web of Repositories and…

  29.07.2016

• 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