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AI Predicts Droughts A Year In Advance
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 4:42 am | Skoltech
Skoltech and Sber researchers propose a complex approach for predicting droughts several months or even a year before they occur. The team’s solution fuses AI with classical methods. It relies on spatiotemporal neural networks and openly available ... More >>
Skoltech Will Create Sergey Kapitsa’s Digital Twin And Document Its Development
Saturday, 13 July 2024, 4:47 am | Skoltech
The study of “gray zones” will be a special part of the project. Social sciences are struggling to keep up with the rapid advancement of AI technology, leading to controversial ethical issues, gaps in the legal framework, and even embarrassing ... More >>
Scientists Created A “fatness Map” Of The Human Brain
Saturday, 6 July 2024, 4:22 am | Skoltech
Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and their colleagues have created the world’s first map of human brain lipids. They studied brain tissue samples from four healthy individuals and assessed the lipid composition in 75 different ... More >>
Tactile Imagery Boosts Excitability
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 9:50 am | Skoltech
In a paper published in the Scientific Reports journal, researchers from Skoltech and Moscow State University investigated the effect of imagining tactile sensations (tactile imagery) on the excitability of the corticospinal tract using the transcranial ... More >>
Tannic Acid-coated Magnetic Beads Will Facilitate Early Cancer Diagnosis
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 5:58 pm | Skoltech
Researchers have synthesized tannic acid-coated magnetic beads capable of extracting membrane vesicles called “exosomes” from biological fluids with 60% efficiency. More >>
New Promising Catalyst: Skoltech Researchers Continue Their Research Into Tungsten Pentaboride
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 4:21 am | Skoltech
A group of researchers led by Professor Alexander Kvashnin from Skoltech’s Energy Transition Center has published a new paper on tungsten pentaboride, WB5-x, a substance that has a number of advantages over traditional catalysts More >>
Scientists Propose Converting Natural Gas Into Hydrogen Directly In Gas Fields
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 4:35 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have found a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas with 45 % efficiency right in the gas field by injecting steam and a catalyst into a well and adding oxygen to ignite the gas. More >>
Outlandish Molecule Suggested To Lurk Inside Uranus And Neptune, Affecting Their Magnetic Fields
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 7:25 am | Skoltech
Skoltech scientists and their Chinese colleagues have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion. Dubbed aquodiium, it can be conceptualized as an ordinary neutral molecule of water with two additional protons stuck to it, ... More >>
Physicists Create Optical Component For 6G
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 5:43 am | Skoltech
The new device can be used as a modulator and generator of terahertz vortex beams in medicine, 6G communications, and microscopy. The paper came out in Advanced Optical Materials. More >>
New Photocatalyst To Improve Decarbonization And Other Chemical Reactions
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 4:58 am | Skoltech
A research group from Skoltech, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis and Tomsk Polytechnic University conducted an experiment and proved that a new photocatalyst can compete with noble metals. It significantly increases the efficiency of chemical reactions ... More >>
Laboratory And Natural Strains Of Intestinal Bacterium Turned Out To Have Similar Mutational Profiles
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 5:12 am | Skoltech
Understanding mutational processes in a cell offers clues to the evolution of a genome. Most actively, mutation processes are studied in human cancer cells, while other genomes are often neglected. More >>
Study Reveals Differences In DNA Folding Between Neurons And Other Brain Cells, Links Them To Cell Functions
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 4:42 am | Skoltech
Mounting knowledge of nerve cell regulation mechanisms will enable a better understanding of how the healthy brain operates and what goes wrong in developmental and oncological diseases associated with regulation errors. The study came out in the journal Nucleic ... More >>
Scientists Stencil-paint Carbon Nanotube Components For Flexible Transparent Electronics
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:11 am | Skoltech
The resulting films turned out to have superior properties for manufacturing components for 6G communication devices and flexible and transparent electronics - such as wearable health trackers. More >>
Researchers Reveal New Method For Calculating Mechanical Pro
Monday, 25 March 2024, 11:34 pm | Skoltech
A research team from Skoltech introduced a new method which takes advantage of machine learning for studying the properties of polycrystals, composites, and multiphase systems. More >>
Researchers Reveal New Method For Calculating Mechanical Properties Of Solids Using Machine Learning
Monday, 25 March 2024, 11:16 pm | Skoltech
A research team from Skoltech introduced a new method which takes advantage of machine learning for studying the properties of polycrystals, composites, and multiphase systems. More >>
Study: Bacteria On Roof Of The World Hatch Antibiotics
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 9:51 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Russia have discovered that the waters and soils of the Tibetan Plateau are teeming with bacteria that produce antibiotics. While none of the antimicrobial compounds identified by the team are ... More >>
New Hydrogen-rich Compounds Emerge From Study On Unexplored Combination Of 3 Chemical Elements For Superconductivity
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:17 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from MIPT and China’s Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research have computationally explored the stability of the bizarre compounds of hydrogen, lanthanum, and magnesium that exist ... More >>
Poisonous Hogweed Infestation Threatens To Envelop European Russia By Mid-21st Century
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 7:03 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers are forecasting that by 2040-60, Sosnowsky’s hogweed will likely exploit global warming to expand its habitat, threatening to infest almost the entire European part of Russia. Published in Scientific Reports , the ... More >>
Study Probes Earth’s Turbulent Past To Explain Where Oceans Came From
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 7:31 am | Skoltech
The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the origin of life on Earth, and potential habitability of other Earth-like planets. In a recent study in Physical Review Letters , a Skoltech ... More >>
Artificial Intelligence Resolves Riddle Of Animal Swirling
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 7:13 am | Skoltech
A group of Skoltech scientists — PhD student Egor Nuzhin, Assistant Professor Maxim Panov, and Professor Nikolay Brilliantov — applied artificial intelligence methods to explain an enigmatic natural phenomenon: animal swirling. While AI has ... More >>
