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• Highlights of Another Break Down by Atoms Lecture at the Informational Center for Atomic Energy

  …tions.  Radiation that saves lives  Margarita Tyupina, a researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry of the Khlopin Radium Institute, gave an overview of the history of using radiation to treat cancer and outlined the fields where nuclear medicine is developing these days.  It was actually Maria Skłodowska-Curie who first thought of radium’s healin…

  03.03.2021

• Giant Turnips and Runaway Buns: Essential Russian Folktales

  …terpretations as you’d like. Perhaps Ryaba the Hen has to do with the world egg – a common motif in myths around the world. Or maybe researchers dig too deeply and it’s just a story about a magical chicken. Who knows? You can check out this folktale here and maybe you’ll come up with your own meaning.  At the Behest of the Pike In folklore studies, there is a c…

  01.03.2021

• Song of the Month: February 2021

  …cal title, don’t you think?), enjoy it if you will. Anna This month, I’m trying to figure out how to talk about complex stuff in a simple way and who does that best? StoryBots! These inquisitive cartoon characters can explain everything from emotions to electricity in a song to a five-year-old. If you can rap it, you can teach it! Here’s really all you need…

  26.02.2021

• A Guide to the World of Science Fiction

  …pularize this genre in Russia. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R series of games and books remain popular even today, although the beginning of the whole universe was laid by the Strugatskys' story called Roadside Picnic. Among other things, their works are a great example of the genre’s diversity: from a fairy tale, Monday Begins on Saturday, which can also be a great start for …

  26.02.2021

• Student Spotlight: Stefan Labovic, Montenegro

  …roblems. What are your hobbies? My favorite hobby is reading about cool technologies and things that can really change the way the world used to be. I also really like history books, especially those related to my people and my country. And if I really have a lot of free time, I like to go to the gym and exercise. What are your plans for the future? I hop…

  25.02.2021

• ITMO Professor Alexander Boukhanovsky on How AI Can Help Economy in Crisis

  …nly financial ones. The COVID-19 pandemic let us see the instability of behavioral economics. As machine learning models learn with existing data and, so to say, predict the history, they are naturally hard to use in crises – the data changes faster than it takes to train a model. That’s why now we are trying to find a way to build the models that would work in crise…

  25.02.2021

• Art & Science Open Day: New Majors, New Formats, New Opportunities

  …nts will be offered three new specializations: Digital Art, Technological Art, and Bioart. The program includes three types of classes, namely, theoretical courses on history, philosophy, and aesthetic concepts of contemporary and scientific and technological art, as well as practical classes on various mediums and methods of today’s media artists, and worksho…

  24.02.2021

• Top Five Places in Russia You Can’t Really Visit

  …Ruslan and Lyudmila poem. But what is lukomorye? You won’t find it on modern maps. At the same time, it wasn’t Pushkin who came up with it – this name has a far more ancient history. The term dates back to the 11-12th centuries and back then it meant a bay or a bight, so you can actually find several lukomoryes on very old maps. In Slavic mythology, however, it’s …

  22.02.2021

• ITMO Wins Grand Prix of National PR Award Silver Archer

  … for tuition-free positions in Bachelor’s programs grew by 30% since the previous year, and the average Unified State Exam score reached 93.1 to become the highest in ITMO’s history.  ITMO also ranked among Russia’s top five universities in the quality of tuition-free admissions, the only St. Petersburg university on the list, and students themselves described the…

  20.02.2021

• How Citizen Science Helps Drive Research Forward

  … of study but also researchers themselves. This way, they collect information, take part in the analysis of data sets, and help scientists solve scientific problems.  History shows that non-specialists have helped researchers collect scientific data from the very dawn of science. For example, in the 19th century an American naval officer, oceanographer, and me…

  18.02.2021