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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 >>
Chickpea Genes Catalogued In Unprecedented Detail To Safeguard Your Protein Needs Amid Climate Warming
Friday, 12 November 2021, 5:54 am | Skoltech
A new study in Nature by an international research team featuring Skoltech researchers has looked at the DNA of over 3,000 chickpea plants, cataloguing all possible genetic variations in the species. The team proposes a breeding model for using that data ... More >>
Insects’ sense of smell gives insight into better repellent
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 5:43 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have studied a core element of the insect olfactory system to see how this knowledge might help in both fighting insects and using them to our advantage. The paper was published in the journal Molecular Biology ... More >>
Longest Case Of COVID-19 Sheds Light On SARS-CoV-2 Escape From Immune System
Monday, 2 August 2021, 7:48 pm | Skoltech
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have studied the longest confirmed case of COVID-19 in an immunocompromised patient who was infected for 318 days. The study revealed new ways in which the virus can mutate to escape from cellular immunity. ... More >>
Neural Network Helps Doctors Detect Epilepsy-causing Malformation In The Brain
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 5:43 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Center and the Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology have used a convolutional neural network to automate ... More >>
Neural Model Seeks ‘Inappropriateness’ To Reduce Chatbot Awkwardness
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 5:39 am | Skoltech
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Mobile TeleSystems have introduced the notion of inappropriate text messages and released a neural model capable of detecting them, along with a large collection of such messages for further research. ... More >>
Russia’s First Cloned Calf Opens Door To Gene-edited Cattle | Press Release
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 5:30 am | Skoltech
Researchers from Ernst Federal Science Center for Animal Husbandry, Skoltech, Moscow State University and their colleagues have produced the first viable cloned calf in Russia – and she recently turned one. In a related experiment, the team was ... More >>
New Study Explains Mycobacterium Tuberculosis High Resistance To Drugs And Immunity
Friday, 9 April 2021, 5:47 am | Skoltech
A consortium of researchers from Russia, Belarus, Japan, Germany and France led by a Skoltech scientist have uncovered the way in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives in iron-deficient conditions by utilizing rubredoxin B, a protein from a ... More >>
Twist-n-Sync: Skoltech Scientists Use Smartphone Gyroscopes To Sync Time Across Devices
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 9:40 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have designed a software-based algorithm for synchronizing time across smartphones that can be used in practical tasks requiring simultaneous measurements. This algorithm can essentially help turn several devices into a full-fledged ... More >>
Machine Learning Can Help Doctors Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease By Looking At Patients’ Movements
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 7:32 am | Skoltech
Scientists from Skoltech and A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biophysical Center have designed and developed a second opinion system, based on AI-assisted video analysis, which can help medical professionals to objectively assess patients with Parkinson’s ... More >>
Russian Chemists Developed Polymer Cathodes For Ultrafast Batteries
Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 6:20 pm | Skoltech
In the face of the surging demand for lithium-ion batteries and limited lithium reserves, scientists are searching for lithium technology alternatives. Russian researchers from Skoltech, D. Mendeleev University, and the Institute of Problems of Chemical ... More >>
In New Skoltech Research, ‘e-nose’ And Computer Vision Help Cook The Perfect Chicken
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 7:58 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have found a way to use chemical sensors and computer vision to determine when grilled chicken is cooked just right. These tools can help restaurants monitor and automate cooking processes in their kitchens, and perhaps one day even ... More >>
‘Bespoke’ Analysis Of DNA Packaging Sheds Light On The Intricacies Of The Fundamental Process
Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 7:22 am | Skoltech
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have optimized data analysis for a common method of studying the 3D structure of DNA in single cells of a Drosophila fly. The new approach allows the scientists to peek with greater confidence into ... More >>
Scientists Have Synthesized An Unusual Superconducting Barium Superhydride
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 6:15 am | Skoltech
A group of scientists from Russia, China, and the United States predicted and then experimentally obtained barium superhydrides' new unusual superconductors. The study was published in Nature Communications . Chemists and physicists have been hunting ... More >>
Artificial Intelligence Sets Sights On The Sun
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 8:42 am | Skoltech
Scientists from the University of Graz and the Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory (Austria) and their colleagues from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) developed a new method based on deep learning for stable classification and quantification ... More >>
