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• ITMO Scientists Step Closer to Explaining How Pulsar Nebulas Form

  Researchers from ITMO University investigated how twisted electrons absorb photons in a strong magnetic field. This often occurs in pulsar nebulas that accompany neutron stars and consist of electrons and positrons. Given that the phenomena cannot be studied empirically, theoretical estimations remain one of the key approaches for illustrating what is happening with space objects at the particle level. The findings were published in The European Physical Journal C.

  05.02.2025

• Sunlight: Friend or Foe?

  Lately, we’ve been made very aware of the importance of sunscreen in preventing all kinds of harmful influence from solar rays. But today, in honor of the sun that’s been a rare guest in the St. Petersburg skies, we’ve decided to look at some of the benefits of sunlight and reasons why it shouldn’t be avoided altogether.

  03.12.2024

• Researchers Develop Nanostructure for Detection of Spiral Molecules via Twisted Light

  Scientists from ITMO University, Zhejiang University, and the Ioffe Institute have developed a metasurface capable of identifying the direction of the rotation of circular polarized light waves with a near-100% accuracy. Its artificial coating reflects leftward-spun light and allows rightward-spun light through. The structure is a mere several hundred nanometers thin, allowing it to be used even in the most advanced electronic devices. The technology should accelerate medical testing, simplify the detection of spiral molecules, such as DNA, and provide new prospects for experimental physics research. Results of the study have been published in Laser & Photonics Review.

  11.11.2024

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 Awarded to Researchers Who Made the Impossible Possible

  The 2023 Nobel Prize was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for producing short pulses of light that make it possible to see inside atoms and molecules. The laureates were announced during a live stream on the Nobel Assembly's website on October 3. ITMO.NEWS asked Dmitry Karlovets, a senior researcher at ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering, to weigh in on the trio’s experiment and the prospects of their finding.

  04.10.2023

• Svetoskop Museum of Fascinating Physics Launches in Kronstadt With ITMO Support

  How to fly using optical illusions, why white clothes glow bright under UV light, and how to put planes in the air with the energy of light – these and other things are explained at the Svetoskop Museum of Fascinating Physics, which has just opened in a new public space in the town of Kronstadt near St. Petersburg. Supported by ITMO, the museum helps its guests not only experience, but also to get to the bottom of various optical and mechanical phenomena – and even stage their own experiments.

  26.07.2022

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

  Art historians Olga Kolganova and Anna Spiridonova joined forces with ITMO graduate Sofia Petrash to recreate the monument originally designed by Grigory Guidoni. Read on to learn more about the process behind the project – from the initial idea to its presentation at a conference. 

  06.11.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Predict New Quantum Phase of Matter in Chains of Oscillating Atoms

  The results of this research can be used to control the properties of light and matter and to create quantum memory.

  05.11.2020

• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  ITMO professor Sergei Stafeev recently delivered a lecture in which he spoke about how Greek philosophers succeeded in discovering many of the laws of optics, how these discoveries were reflected in art, and what’s similar about the story of Medusa and one of the Harry Potter books. ITMO.NEWS put down the main ideas.

  02.11.2020

• Interactive Media Design: a New Specialization of ITMO’s Master’s Program in Lighting Design

  Starting from the fall semester of the 2020/2021 academic year, the Master’s program in Lighting Design will feature a new, additional specialization in interactive media design. 

  29.06.2020

• Light, Health, and Interior Design: LIGHT4HEALTH Summer School at ITMO

  The first summer school of the LIGHT4HEALTH project has ended. Students of ITMO University’s Master’s programs Lighting Design and Industrial Design, as well as students of four partner universities have completed the course hosted by the University of Wolverhampton. Students were given five days to learn how seemingly ordinary home lighting can affect people's lives and health from a scientific and practical perspective. At the end of the course all students presented their own lighting projects, which they created with actual living conditions of the UK’s households in mind.

  16.09.2019