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• New Technologies Make Energy Safe and Effective

  …The new class of high-performing organic molecules called quinones can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in large batteries. American researchers analyzed about a million different quinones, before to create a new class of battery electrolyte material. According to them, it expands the p…

  28.07.2016

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

  … the rankings concerning the rich files indicator, which was substituted by a social indicator. Instead of looking for the number of pdf files that mention the University, the new sources now include Academia, Bibsonomy, CiteUlike, CrossRef, Datadryad, Delicious, Facebook, Figshare, Google+, GitHub, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, RenRen, ResearchGate, Scribd…

  28.07.2016

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

  …showed that VR offers an effective way of perceiving information, and can be used to train human intelligence, develop its particular aspects. In August we are going to open a new educational platform to test some of our theories. This platform will be focused on maintaining distributed communication between people from all over the world, and visualizing the places …

  28.07.2016

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

• Cyborg Olympics Exploiting the Power of Technology

  …plained Mr. Khlebnikov. Those who have Motorica prostheses won’t participant in the event, they will act as experts and consultants for those who want to get either a new prosthetic or multi-functional electronic gadget in the foreseeable future. Engineers from the company are striving to ensure that the appearance of the prosthesis will change based on cust…

  27.07.2016

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: A Cross-Cultural Experience for European Students

• Getting Close to Nanostructures

  …ossible to work on a live specimen – it dies soon after the conductive coating (Au, C, Pt, etc.) is applied. Zhukov’s work at ITMO University has to do with the development of new types of sensor probes, which should improve their resolving power and increase the application of scanning probe microscopy. “In traditional optical microscopy, we look at the spe…

  26.07.2016

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

• Forum for Strategic Initiatives: Experts Look Towards the Future

  …round tables and discussions were focused on educational issues.   “The forum’s most popular topic was the future of industry, science, project management, education, and new competencies. Everything was focused around the “millennials” generation, the new industrial revolution and, obviously, around the implementation of the Natio…

  26.07.2016

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

  …ed of two modules: the first one concentrates on science journalism and the second – on science PR, and offers an in-depth approach to several relevant topics, such as writing news articles and long-reads, working with media, experts, etc. The students will learn of the current state of science journalism, new approaches to using media …

  25.07.2016