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• Three ITMO Students and a Graduate Win UMNIK Grant Competition – Here Are Their Projects and Plans

  … app. But it’s another matter completely when a navigator app leads you to a dead end or an online shop charges you a bigger sum than it said on the receipt. And it’s a graver story when we’re talking about healthcare, the space industry, or preprogrammed guidance systems.  But we humans also make many mistakes and until machines start writing code, we need tools …

  09.11.2020

• Speak Like a Russian: Phrases From Soviet Movies We Know by Heart

  …e’s all ears when hearing a toast – and, of course, toasts are followed by a few drinks that can make you a bit sensitive. That’s when the waiter goes all passionate about the story of one tiny yet proud bird that aimed at the sun while others were ready to leave for the winter and was wrong – made Shurik fall into tears. So, Птичку жалко, in fact, has a plain meanin…

  09.11.2020

• Art & Science of the 1920s: ITMO Graduate Creates 3D Visualization of Guidoni’s Luminous Monument

  …at already back in the 1920s the interdisciplinary field of Art & Science was developing in the USSR. Olga Kolganova, a research associate at the Russian Institute of Art History who studies Guigoni’s heritage initiated the project. Together with Sofia Petrash and her supervisor, Anna Spiridonova, a senior lecturer at ITMO, they brought one of Guidoni’s concepts t…

  06.11.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 7-8, 2020

  … mysterious world full of light, adventures, and magic. You’ll have the chance to stroll along the narrow streets inside the Peter and Paul Fortress, get acquainted with the history of our country's navy, experience Night of Museums, and take a virtual tour of the city’s exhibition halls. You will meet the nightly “inhabitants” of the fortress, the artifacts of the K…

  04.11.2020

• TEDxStPetersburg Speakers on the Future of Education, Quantum Revolution, and Burnout Prevention

  …ared for it. He also recommends studying quantum mechanics. Among other TEDxStPetersburg speakers were Alexander Tsypkin, an author and a screenwriter, who shared his short story, called A Million of Characters, about the new ways of communication, Dmitry Morozov, the founder of BIOCAD, who talked about the future of biotechnologies that has already come, and Olga…

  03.11.2020

• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  …When speaking about the history of optics, physicists recall the names of ancient philosophers such as Archimedes and Euclides. The word “optics” stems from Greek “optikos” and means “the science of visual perception”. Even today, scientists still use the laws discovered by the ancient Greeks more than two thousand years ago. It’s less often mentioned that the anc…

  02.11.2020

• Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan

  …riving to protect the mountain. Here came the protests including a confrontation with police, security services, and the industry. Thanks to the courage of the activists, this story has a happy ending, as the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan granted it the status of a protected natural area. There’s no chance it could happen if the locals were indifferent. …

  02.11.2020

• Allergist Olga Zhogoleva on Evidence-Based Medicine and Myths

  … with the maximum number of allergens as soon as possible, not to limit contact with animals, so that the immune system does not work in an allergic manner. Here is another story from practical allergology. There is such a thing as anaphylaxis – a generalized allergic condition portrayed in movies like this – a person eats a nut, loses consciousness, and starts to…

  29.10.2020

• Student Spotlight: Rigel Olvera, Mexico

• Research Team from ITMO University, St. Petersburg State University, and Nova Southeastern University Is the First to Sequence the Genome of Moss Animals

  …The fields of genetics and bioinformatics give scientists the ability to reveal more and more of nature’s secrets. Genetic information allows them to study evolution, history, and the current state of species. However, the genome must be thoroughly sequenced beforehand. That’s what many scientists are engaged in these days. The genomes of common species, such as monk…

  28.10.2020