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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 >>
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 >>
