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• Interstellar Performance: ITMO Student Wins Gagarin Scholarship

  41 students from 14 Russian regions participated in the second annual open competition for the Yuri Gagarin scholarship. Tatiana Shemigon, Master’s student at ITMO’s Department of Applied and Computer Optics, was among the three winners of the award this year. She is the first ITMO student to receive this prestigious scholarship.

  30.11.2017

• Spaceports: Where They Are and How to Get There

  Each year during the World Space Week we celebrate the contribution of space science and technology to human civilization. The event coincides with such dates as the launch of USSR’s Sputnik – Earth’s first artificial satellite – on October 4, 1957 and the enactment of the Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967. Many among us might believe that they know everything about human exploration of space – but is that really so? How many for instance, are aware that there are 28 spaceports on Earth or that the planet’s most active spaceport is not that far from the city of St. Petersburg? How space exploration first began, where the planet’s spaceports are and how to get there: read and find out.

  12.10.2017

• Journey to the Red Planet: New and Daring Projects for Mars Travel

  In the recent years, the journey to Mars has been a hot topic among scientists and the general public. Back in the 16th century, new lands were discovered by ships sailing the seas; nowadays, we're talking about exploring new places in the Solar system where humans could settle using a different kind of ship. In this article, we'll be looking at the newest engineering and scientific solutions for man's journey to the Red Planet.

  18.09.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  In just a few days, the neural-network based app Teleport, which turns a simple selfie into a colorful collage in the blink of an eye, rose to second place on App Store’s Top Free Games list. With 1.5 million downloads, the service has gone viral on social media, coming close to the success of similar photo editing apps such as Meitu, FaceApp and Prizma. These days neural networks help us pick hair and lipstick colors, come up with beer names and draw cat pictures. But they are capable of much more complex tasks in business, finance and science. Medical diagnostics, searching for hypervelocity stars and rare animals – here’s how neural networks are helping scientists today.

  08.08.2017