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• ITMO Scientists Are First to Assemble Jaguarundi Genome

  A research team consisting of scientists from ITMO University, St. Petersburg State University, and the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS have assembled the genome of jaguarundi, a puma species that inhabits Central and South America.

  31.08.2021

• Researcher Artemy Okhotin: If Vaccine Makes Hospitalization Five Times Less Likely – Then It’s a Powerful Tool

  In late August, researchers from the European University at St. Petersburg, the Sergey Berezin Medical Institute, the Pavlov First State Medical University of St. Petersburg, and the central district hospital of Tarusa  conducted an independent study of the efficacy of the Sputnik V vaccine in preventing hospitalization among those infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19. The study demonstrated that the vaccine is 81% effective in preventing hospitalization in such cases. ITMO.NEWS got the chance to interview Arseny Okhotin, one of the authors of the study, a cardiologist and physician in Tarusa, and a student at ITMO’s new Master’s program Public Health Sciences. Read on to learn more about the research project and the way it can change public perception of vaccines.  

  30.08.2021

• International Team Develop Non-Radiating Electromagnetic Source

  The proposed structure allows to generate electromagnetic fields without dissipating any energy into the surrounding environment. This type of electromagnetic source will pave the way for technological breakthroughs, such as highly efficient wireless power transfer systems, high-precision sensors, and RFID technology.

  30.08.2021

• Ten Questions On Physical Experiments

  Every day, scientists around the world conduct thousands of experiments. The best ones get featured in prestigious international journals. How do you achieve this? How to conduct an experiment and what do you do if it fails? Prof. Sergey Makarov, head researcher at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering and head of the Laboratory of Hybrid Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics, answered these and other questions for ITMO.NEWS.

  27.08.2021

• Why We Should Study Anti-Vaccination Communities

  Vaccination saved humanity from many dangerous diseases, such as smallpox, polio, and measles. However, there have always been people who were sceptical about it. What is going on in the anti-vaccination communities? What do their members discuss? How can we establish a constructive dialog with them? Denis Kvasnyuk, an analyst at ITMO’s Center for Development of Publishing Activities and junior researcher at the STS Center of the European University, tried to answer these and other questions. We met with Denis to discuss the importance and methods of such research.

  26.08.2021

• ITMO Researchers Introduce New Method for Magnetization Switching

  Scientists Andrew Kudlis, Ivan Shelykh, and Ivan Iorsh from ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering have proposed an innovative method for ultrafast magnetization switching in layered magnetic structures. The developed technique makes it possible to efficiently control memory cells and break the ground for fully optical methods of recording information in 2D materials. The article detailing the results of the study is published in Physical Review B, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Physical Society.

  25.08.2021

• ITMO Researchers Find a Way to Control Localized Light

  Scientists from ITMO University, the National University of Colombia, and the University of Siena have developed a metasurface with a unique structure and properties. The proposed solution makes it possible to generate surface waves with new characteristics, transfer them from point to point while maintaining their initial polarization, and therefore improve information communication. The relevant article is published in Physical Review X.

  19.08.2021

• ITMO Student Evgenia Ikonnikova on Internship in France

  In 2021, the second year Master’s student went to Nancy, a city in France, for an internship. She spent five months there learning a completely new field. Upon her return, she told ITMO.NEWS about going to Europe during the pandemic, the difference between Russian and European laboratories, and getting a Pfizer vaccine.

  17.08.2021

• Some Like It Cold: ITMO Experts Talk Latest in Cryogenics

  It’s a scorcher outside! Just the right time to think about the cold. And for a good reason: liquid helium, commonly used as a refrigerant, was first produced on July 10, 1908 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist who earned a Nobel Prize in 1913 for this discovery. Igor Baranov, head of ITMO’s School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems, and Oleg Pakhomov, an associate professor at the Faculty of Energy and Ecotechnology, joined us to talk about cryogenic technologies and the latest advances in the field.

  13.07.2021

• ITMO Scientists Discover Nonlinear Circular Dichroism in Mie-Resonant Nanoparticle Dimers

  The discovered effect may potentially be used to create special sensors for chiral molecules. These molecules are particularly useful to the pharmaceutical industry, but have a unique structure that makes them difficult to detect. The related article was published in Nano Letters.

  07.07.2021