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Applications Now Open For The SMILES-2026 Summer School On Machine Learning
Monday, 27 April 2026, 8:36 pm | Skoltech
The school is intended for senior undergraduate students, master’s students, PhD students, and early-career researchers from Russia, China, and other countries. More >>
Batteries From Naphthalene And Anthracene: Hydrocarbons Will Change The Future Of Energy Storage
Monday, 27 April 2026, 9:46 am | Skoltech
Unlike the rigid structure of graphite, which currently dominates the anode market for lithium batteries, hydrocarbon molecules can be tailored for specific tasks. More >>
Polymer Physics Reveals DNA Loops Are Formed By Single Molecular Motors
Friday, 17 April 2026, 4:45 pm | Skoltech
To test the theory, the researchers analyzed more than 30 datasets from human and mouse cells. The loop density turned out to be surprisingly large: on average, six loops per million base pairs of DNA. More >>
Skoltech Scientists Adapt 3D Printing For Manufacturing Copper Alloy Components
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 9:53 am | Skoltech
Aluminum bronze (Cu-9.5Al-1Fe) offers higher thermal conductivity than steel and titanium while being more suitable for additive manufacturing than pure copper. More >>
AI Creates Quasi-Atoms: A New Approach To Materials Study
Friday, 3 April 2026, 11:07 am | Skoltech
The approach could find applications in modeling material properties, creating composites with specified mechanical characteristics, predicting the lifespan of parts and assemblies in mechanical engineering, etc. More >>
Researchers Develop Durum Wheat That Combines Freezing Tolerance With High Pasta Quality
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 7:29 pm | Skoltech
As a result of the study, approximately 60 new durum wheat lines were selected that combine cold tolerance with superior gluten properties. More >>
Protecting Turbines From Extreme Heat: How Supercomputers Helped Create Ceramics That Withstand 2,000°C
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 9:15 am | Skoltech
The material’s thermal expansion coefficient closely matches that of the metal blades, reducing risk of cracking during heating and cooling cycles. Its mechanical properties, including stiffness and nanohardness, are on par with existing materials. More >>
Open Data To Help Create Adaptive Systems For Stroke Recovery
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 9:12 pm | Skoltech
All data — including fNIRS and EEG signals, clinical assessments (Fugl-Meyer scale, ARAT), and demographic information — have been made openly available on the Figshare platform. More >>
Study Reveals Molecular Impact On Oxygen-Starved Brain Of Newborns, Offers Hints To Reduce Long-Term Damage
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 8:35 pm | Skoltech
The next step would be to seek ways to interfere with these pathological processes in a beneficial way and test the efficacy of drugs on the organoids to gain useful insights into their effectiveness in treating diseases. More >>
Scientists Marry DNA Origami And 2D Materials To Make Nanoelectronics
Friday, 23 January 2026, 7:47 pm | Skoltech
In the future, the technique could be used to create components for ultrasmall high-performance devices. The research paper came out in the journal Small Methods. More >>
Researchers Harness Nonlinear Compton Scattering To Create Sharper, Multicolor Gamma-Ray Beams
Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 9:31 am | Skoltech
The authors emphasize that their framework can serve as a digital test stand for exploring pulse designs and control strategies — including AI and machine-learning approaches — before committing to costly hardware. More >>
Simple, Universal Model Explains Chemical Reactivity Of All Elements
Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 8:16 am | Skoltech
Some chemical elements, such as tungsten, react with only a handful of others. In contrast, oxygen and fluorine form stable compounds with nearly every element in the periodic table. More >>
Skoltech Researchers Developed A Method To Accurately Evaluate Fibrous Material Porosity From A Single Image
Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 7:45 am | Skoltech
Fibrous materials are used extensively in many industries, including biomedicine, energy production, acoustic insulation, and composite materials. More >>
New Research Unveils Universal Law Explaining Chaotic Motion Of Chromosomes
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 7:38 pm | Skoltech
By analyzing two markers on a chromosome simultaneously, the authors were able to isolate the signal corresponding specifically to the collective motion. More >>
Mathematical Model Of Memory Suggests 7 Senses Are Optimal
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 7:43 am | Skoltech
The evolution of engrams refers to concepts becoming more focused or blurred with time, depending on how often the engrams get activated by a stimulus acting from the outer world via the senses, triggering the memory of the respective object. More >>
Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Model Predicts Its Performance Under Low-Temperature Conditions
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 8:02 am | Skoltech
The results, published in the Journal of Power Sources, will serve as the foundation for developing advanced battery management algorithms that maintain maximum system efficiency even in low-temperature conditions. More >>
Unusual Microbug Anatomy Shown To Optimize Wing Weight
Sunday, 31 August 2025, 9:39 pm | Skoltech
As engineers grapple with the issue of battery size and other technical obstacles preventing the further miniaturization of insectlike drones, structures imitating bristled wings could find applications in pumping fluids through ultrathin tubes ... More >>
A New Step Towards 6G: Skoltech Scientists Publish A Monograph On Modern Methods Of Massive Machine-Type Communications
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:34 am | Skoltech
The monograph combines fundamental theoretical results (including energy-efficiency limits) and practical implementation schemes. This makes the book valuable both for scientists and engineers working on next-generation communication networks. More >>
Eye Tracking Reveals Which Smart Prosthetics Feel Foreign To The Body — Independently Of User Feedback
Sunday, 17 August 2025, 7:01 pm | Skoltech
The new portable system encompasses eye-tracking glasses with two cameras capturing eye movement and a third camera tracking the environment, sensors incorporated into the prosthesis, and the software that processes the data. More >>
Study Uncovers Technologically Appealing Trick Used By Microalgae To Manipulate Light
Sunday, 27 July 2025, 5:37 pm | Skoltech
The team confirmed the occurrence of the Talbot effect with calculations and is planning to support the findings with an experiment with a scaled-up artificial structure mimicking the hole pattern of the frustule. More >>
