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Michio Kaku on Digital Future: Should We Fear Robots?
The next wave of scientific and technological progress will be based on molecular biology, biotech, AI and nanotechnology, says Michio Kaku, a physicist, co-founder of string field theory and popularizer of science. In his talk at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Prof. Kaku described a high-tech future complete with digital immortality and perfect capitalism. Do robots know they’re different from humans? What professions will soon be obsolete forever? Will we ever get a chance to chat with Albert Einstein? ITMO.NEWS provides a summary of the scientist’s predictions of the future.
28.05.2018
Funny Science: ITMO Hosts Its First-Ever Science Stand-Up Show "Quantum Potential"
Scientists are often asked about their work, but that usually happens at long lectures and with a straight face. Yes, science is very serious, but you can treat it with humor just as any other work! ITMO University organized the first scientific stand-up club "Quantum Potential" where scientists can finally joke about their work. ITMO.NEWS recorded the most amusing quotes.
02.04.2018
Eco-Friendly Board Game Teaches Students to Combine Business and Sustainable Development
Master’s students from ITMO University learned about sustainable development at a workshop on the board game Ecologic. Sustainable development is the concept of balance between humanity’s ecological, economic and social goals. This kind of balance is what Ecologic aims to inspire people to strive towards. ITMO.NEWS spoke to the game’s creators and their collaborators about what makes the game enjoyable - and beneficial to the world.
15.03.2018
New Materials, Genes, And Crowd Management: Science Slam in St. Petersburg
How can one of most widespread materials on the Earth help cure cancer? In what ways are people similar to pigeons? Why oxidize graphene atoms? And why do genes constitute only 20% of the human genome? Scientists gave answers to these and other questions during the recent Science Slam in St. Petersburg; ITMO.NEWS summarized the key points of their presentations.
13.02.2018
Physics Is No Longer To Explain The World, Rather Predict Its Future
ITMO University has become one of the sites for film screenings of the Contemporary Science Film Festival, which is traditionally held in several Russian cities in late autumn. ITMO has run the film "Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking. Lucky Imperfection", which tells about the physical aspects of time travel. Alexandr Chirtsov, Professor of Physics at ITMO, provided his commentary on the film. ITMO.NEWS interviewed Professor Chirtsov and got to know why classical physics gives only one of the possible approximate interpretations of the world, why the world does not always completely follow the formulated laws of physics and why theoretical physicists are constantly trying to come up with the right equations, providing the right solutions, while experimental physicists are looking for ways to refute them.
20.11.2017
Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?
Yet another Campus, a project that uses the city as a university educational festival, recently took place in St. Petersburg. Adherers of popular science gathered in nine bars across the city to enjoy lectures by both students and established scientists. The topics included moonflights , the structure of Earth, sunmobiles, transhumanism, the problems of modern communication, archeology and many others. ITMO.NEWS visited some of these lectures to find out why people confuse Big Data with statistics and why memes are so easy to remember.
02.11.2017
Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes
Four years ago, Boris Tsatsulin launched a channel on fitness and sports supplements; gradually, he expanded its scope to different fields of healthcare, nutrition, and sport: calories, macro- and microelements, the dangers of sugar and salt consumption and health care myth-busting. As of today, more than 120,000 people have joined his community on VK, and more than 275,000 watch his channel on YouTube. The author continues on with his project - recently, he's been to Kamchatka to gather more content for his blog, which he plans to develop while studying at ITMO's Science Communication Master's program. We've talked to Boris about the most successful formats and topics, clickbait headlines, criticism and other aspects of his work.
02.10.2017
Ig Nobel Prize And How It Contributes To Science
"Scientists have at last proved that cats are liquid!" - such ironic posts by cat lovers filled the Internet after the latest Ig Nobel prize awards. Surely, the Ig Nobel prize is often treated as a joke, yet it actually sets forth important questions, like what science is really about, and whom it should serve? Which research is important and which not? Does science leave any place for creativity, and can research be treated as useless only because it makes us laugh?
19.09.2017
BBC Expert: How to Make Science More Accessible
Julian Siddle, a BBC science journalist and the producer for BBC World Service and BBC Radio, has given a series of talks at Central Exhibition Hall Manege and ITMO University as part of the UK-Russia Year of Science and Education 2017. Speaking to the audience, he discussed the ways to explain gravity waves to children, why major discoveries often begin with the simplest questions and whether scientific content can compete with the social media’s top vloggers.
15.09.2017
Anna Krongauz, Editor of Popular Science Website N+1 On Science Writing And New Ethics
Popular science is becoming more and more in-demand by the modern society: science lectures gather audiences even on weekends. But does that mean that people are becoming more interested in science? Or does it happen because they see popular science as just source of entertainment? Anna Krongauz, the editor of popular science website N+1, discussed these issues in an interview with ITMO.NEWS. As she explains, not only does the public want to know more about science, but it is already unwittingly engaged in the discussion about the high-technology future. In short, our society is becoming all the more interested in popular science.
15.09.2017