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• Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown

  …ecting the planet’s elliptical orbit, it was apparent that something else affected its movement. “If your understanding of the world conflicts with your observations, you must understand that you should either change your understanding, or see if you’re missing something. It’s incredible how long, back in the early 19th century, it took for people to accept that…

  30.04.2019

• Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

  …ow. The mass of a dragon, roughly estimated, is around a ton. Planes fly thanks to small, but powerful engines, while dragons are biologically-optimized creatures. To me, they must surely fly. What people question less often is how the dragons breathe flame. All theories on this topic point to one factor: self-igniting substances. Basically, a dragon’s body produc…

  26.04.2019

• Exosuits, Career Guidance Bots, and Water Quality Analysis: Projects by Participants of Congress of Young Scientists

  …sist of a few tenths of a micrometer, the heat may have a significant effect on the results. In my work I study the heat-induced expansion of samples during exposure and, I must say, I was able to find some interesting patterns that, I hope, will help us pick the right properties of lasers and recording mediums, as well as the conditions of exposure when recording…

  23.04.2019

• Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product

  …t’s bad for Russia because, first of all, these companies will pay taxes to someone else. And secondly, their technologies will, too, be somewhere else. That’s why the country must be concerned about being attractive to businesses. We have a relatively enjoyable tax regime, but there are issues related to a high degree of government involvement in the economy. And…

  19.04.2019

• ITMO University Hosts Final Round of NTI Competition for University Students

  …ed on April 18. The first place went to team AltFuture from the Irkutsk State University made up of Zoya Volovikova, Alexander Abdulov, Alexey Bykov, Nikita Gromik and Mikhail Mustakimov. The winners will get the opportunity to do a paid summer internship at one of ITMO University’s laboratories in the following fields: computer modeling of natural and social syst…

  19.04.2019

• Genome Analysis Shows Common Ancestry Among Pskov, Novgorod, Yakutia Populations

  …mparison of various groups’ genome data, as well as their histories, helps better understand which genes cause disease and which ones prevent it. In order to do that, the data must be thoroughly analyzed and examined for correlations with diseases; this will be the goal of the joint study’s next stage.…

  19.04.2019

• Data-Driven Medicine: How Patients May Become Their Own Doctors

  …t all, or only to some degree. Not every clinic has the capacity to store everything digitally, and not every patient is able to aggregate all of their data. When every doctor must learn about the patient on their own, it’s hard to maintain a continuity of medical care. Today, we face a new generation of technology that will make it possible to share medical data …

  18.04.2019

• JOB.ITMO: How to Get a Job at ITMO University Without Fuss

  …MO.CODE, represented by the formula V+F+PS+SS, where V stands for Values, F for Fundamental, PS for Professional Skills and SS for Soft Skills. Conditions All applicants must adhere to the ITMO code and share the University’s key values. As for specific requirements, these often include a specialist’s number of publications according to Scopus and the Russian H…

  18.04.2019

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …s the rational brain which we don’t use as often. It may prove difficult to shift the controls to system 2, as our human brain, trained over millennia, believes that decisions must be simple and quick. Intuition, however, fails us in problems that concern economic benefit. And that’s why even the simplest mathematical model is better than a gut feeling.…

  17.04.2019

• Director of RIKEN Nishina Center Hideto Enyo on Discovery of Nihonium

  …ive events in the Universe, such as supernova explosion or neutron-star mergers. Do you collaborate with any foreign research teams, Russian teams in particular? You must be well acquainted with Russian scientist Yuri Oganessian. Kosuke Morita, the scientist who discovered nihonium, had once worked with him; then, he returned to RIKEN and started his own ex…

  17.04.2019