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268 New Alloys: AI Speeds Up Discovery Of Materials For Aerospace, Instruments, Electronics
Monday, 10 February 2025, 7:49 pm | Skoltech
The properties of the newly discovered alloys remain to be verified and established in greater detail by means of specific simulations and experiments to determine which of these materials hold promise for practical applications. More >>
New Contrast Agent For Ultrasound Imaging Tested To Make Medical Diagnostics More Affordable And Safe
Monday, 20 January 2025, 10:40 am | Skoltech
Compared with a protein-based agent without the added copolymer, the new hybrid microbubbles achieved an improvement of both key characteristics: image contrast and the time they remain in the bloodstream, which lengthened between one and a half and two times. More >>
Skoltech Researchers Proposed A New Model For Predicting Hardness Of Materials
Friday, 17 January 2025, 11:52 am | Skoltech
Hardness is an important property of materials that determines their ability to resist deformations and other damages (dents, scratches) due to external forces. More >>
AI Supplies Data For Modeling Safer And More Sustainable Nuclear Power Reactors
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 10:04 am | Skoltech
Molten-salt reactors could ease the problem of mounting nuclear waste from conventional reactors. They produce highly radioactive minor actinides: neptunium-237, americium-241, etc. While this hazardous waste is hard to dispose of, it would be suitable fuel ... More >>
Scientists Take A New Step Toward Creating Digital Oil
Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 11:27 am | Skoltech
The fact that the model includes multiple oil components — particularly asphaltenes and methane — is the key achievement of the study, ensuring a more accurate simulation of molecular interactions. More >>
Scientists Reinvent Physical Laws Governing Formation Of Snowflakes, Raindrops, And Saturn’s Rings
Tuesday, 24 December 2024, 1:47 pm | Skoltech
Fluid aggregation is involved in many processes: In the atmosphere, water droplets agglomerate into rain, and ice microcrystals into snow. In space, particles orbiting giant planets come together to form rings like those familiar from Saturn. More >>
New Method To Boost Generative Model Training By Up To 10 Times
Sunday, 15 December 2024, 11:28 pm | Skoltech
The researchers will present their results in Vancouver at NeurIPS 2024, one of the world’s largest AI conferences. More >>
How The Sun Heals After Plasma Eruption: New Findings On Coronal Dimmings
Monday, 2 December 2024, 9:58 pm | Skoltech
This study sheds new light on eruptive solar phenomena, offering valuable perspectives on the processes that govern the Sun’s behavior and its stormy mood. More >>
Troublemaker Methane: New Apparatus To Simulate Arctic Explosions
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 9:03 pm | Skoltech
Will the new test unit help make the northern oil and gas infrastructure safer? More >>
Dragonfly Wing Pattern Beats Architectural Solutions By Ancient Romans And Cutting-Edge Algorithms
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 11:21 pm | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleague from the University of Granada, Spain, have determined which ways to reinforce vaults and domes in architecture are more efficient. More >>
E-nose Has Mastered The Art Of Detecting Spoiled Meat
Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:25 am | Skoltech
A team from Skoltech, the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS and other leading research organisations has proposed a new method based on electronic nose and computer vision technologies for faster and more accurate assessment ... More >>
Researchers Suggested A New Method For Determining Atomic Charges In Materials
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 8:20 am | Skoltech
The research paper provides a compelling groundwork for the traditional picture based on the notion of electronegativity. More >>
Study Challenges Results Of Biological Age Tests, Suggests Tweak For ‘aging Clocks’
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 4:17 am | Skoltech
Aging clocks are models used to study what causes aging and how to reverse it. They estimate the biological age of a person based on the results of blood tests, advanced DNA sequencing, and other studies. More >>
A Step Closer To Optical Computers: Skoltech Researchers Developed An All-Optical Universal Gate
Tuesday, 30 July 2024, 9:23 am | Skoltech
A research team from Skoltech and Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany, led by Vice President of Photonics at Skoltech Pavlos Lagoudakis, a laureate of the Vyzov (Challenge) prize, have created a universal NOR logical element (from NOT — a negation ... More >>
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 >>
