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• The Five Names of St. Petersburg

• The Art of Making Molecules. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 in Five Simple Points

  …  What makes List and MacMillan’s research worthy of the Nobel Prize?   First of all, its theoretical value: scientists are not always able to explain a phenomenon discovered through experiments. With the term “organocatalysis,” MacMillan himself sought to underline that it doesn’t matter what kind of catalyst he has discover…

  07.10.2021

• ITMO Researchers Increase Productivity Using Smart Lighting

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 in Brief: Changing Climate and Ordered Chaos

  …ng variability and reliably predicting global warming." The other half of the award went to theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." Why are chaotic systems so hard to study? The more complex a system,…

  06.10.2021

• Physics and Chemistry: Nobel Prize Predictions for 2021

  …ars, the Nobel Prize has become more “cosmic”, being awarded for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” in 2017, theoretical discoveries in the field of cosmology and “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star” in 2019, and for studies on black holes in 2020.  There was…

  04.10.2021

• Topological Polariton-Based Structure: Scientists Get One Step Closer to Next-Gen Optoelectronic Devices

  … As it turned out, the solution can be found in the new 2D materials. The first article about graphene saw the light of day back in 2004. As of now, researchers have already discovered a hundred more similar mediums. Among them are materials acting as electronic topological insulators, superconducting materials, and semiconductors that may offer alternatives to clas…

  29.09.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Speaking Multiple Languages – Hot or Not?

  …nus of speaking another language is a multitude of new cultural experiences and communication opportunities that you get access to – a whole new world opens up when you begin discovering a new language.  What about the cost?  Historically, research on bilingualism actually started out on identifying the disadvantages of speaking more than one language.  For …

  28.09.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 25-26, 2021

  … respectable museum doors? Or maybe it’s no use trying to make sense of something that came from the streets outside of its natural habitat? This exhibition is your chance to discover just that, as you explore Maxim Ima’s herbarium – a collection of flowers drawn in peculiar contexts in an attempt to ponder life and death. Hydra new media exhibition Septembe…

  22.09.2021

• It’s Okay to Worry: Experts on How the Pandemic Changed Psychology and Brought Back Old-Time Problems

  …e right thing. Some emotions must be felt, even if they are bad ones. It's perfectly normal to feel worried about things. So, do people now try to avoid even the slightest discomfort?  ES: It seems that people tend to seek help from others, say, psychologists when they want to quickly get rid of “unnecessary” feelings and worries. There's no such thing as “g…

  21.09.2021

• ITMO Scientists Develop Shape-Shifting Microcapsules from Liquid Metals

  …ak down rather than curve in response to stimuli,” explains Aleksandra Falchevskaya. The study stresses that although scientists investigate controlled materials and discover more and more chemical and physical ways to create such materials, no one has ever done it before with metal structures.  “We were the first to use femtosecond laser radiation to s…

  20.09.2021