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• Can you keep a secret?

  …n social media has ensured no place remains hidden or inaccessible from the prying cameras. In recent news, the perpetual need to hunt for authentic experiences has led the scientists at ITMO University in St. Petersburg to develop a tool to allow users to experience the city of St. Petersburg a little closely. According to the university’s website, “The

  27.09.2017

• Teledyne Optech Contributing to The Ocean Cleanup

  …Teledyne Optech’s Chief Scientist Dr Viktor Feygels will be presenting at Oceans 17 MTS/IEEE in Anchorage, Alaska from 18-21 September 2017 the results from Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar’s survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large concentration of plastic debris covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in the north Pacific. D…

  13.09.2017

• Femtosecond laser pulses produce terahertz radiation from water

  …one had created terahertz light from a liquid -- until now. A group from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester (U of R; Rochester, NY), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China), the Center for Terahertz Waves and School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering at Tianjin University (Tianjin, China), Capital Normal …

  11.09.2017

• Glowing Nanoparticle Ink Could Lead to Easy DIY Holograms

  …We live in a golden age of printing in which it's possible to churn out tools, weapons, and even experimental artificial organs. Now, scientists at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia are engineering yet another specialized field of futuristic printing — luminescent holograms that can be produced by a normal inkjet model printer. Co-author of the study  Alexa…

  05.09.2017

• Algorithm identified Trump as 'not-married'

  …Scientists from Russia and Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks instead of one. While testing, the program identified Donald Trump, the 45th US President who is actually married, as single. According to the developers, this inconsistency came up because of Trump's abnormal activity i…

  03.03.2017

• These US Schools Are The Best In Teaching Coding: Did Your University Make The Cut?

  …ts who want to study and get a degree in coding can get stumped over which university to attend. Plenty of universities in the United States have been improving their computer science programs but which of those schools guarantee a high-paying job and excellent education quality for students? …

  09.12.2016