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‘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 >>
Sensors For A ‘smart’ Wound Bandage May Track Healing, Immune Response: Study
Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 8:31 am | Skoltech
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Texas at Austin have presented a proof-of-concept for a wearable sensor that can track healing in sores, ulcers and other kinds of chronic skin wounds, even without the need to remove the bandages. ... More >>
Russian Scientists Created A Chemical Space Mapping Method And Cracked The Mystery Of Mendeleev Numbers
Friday, 6 November 2020, 8:24 am | Skoltech
Scientists had long tried to come up with a system for predicting the properties of materials based on their chemical composition until they set sights on the concept of a chemical space which places materials in a reference frame such that neighboring ... More >>
Where’s That Coming From? Research Makes It Easier To Pinpoint Brain Activity In EEG Studies
Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 8:13 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have proposed a fast and accurate numerical method of addressing the problem plaguing electroencephalography (EEG) studies that monitor the brain’s electrical activity — having to laboriously locate the source of EEG signal in ... More >>
Guiding Light: Skoltech Technology Puts A Light-painting Drone At Your Fingertips
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 7:47 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have designed and developed an interface that allows a user to direct a small drone to light-paint patterns or letters through hand gestures. The new interface, DroneLight, can be used in distant communications, entertainment, ... More >>
Diamond-based Nano-microscope Gives First Direct Observation Of Magnetic Properties Of 2D Materials
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 7:33 am | Skoltech
Artwork by David A. Broadway. Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China have shown that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that opens the door to the discovery ... More >>
The Art Of War: How Bacteria Gather Intel For Guiding Their CRISPR – Cas Systems
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 7:17 am | Skoltech
Researchers from the Severinov Lab at Skoltech have looked at how a poorly studied type of CRISPR–Cas defense system from a bacterium living at extremely high temperature gets to know its enemy by selecting snippets of bacteriophage’s genetic information ... More >>
Environmentally Friendly Way To Recycle Silicon Into Nanoparticles
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 7:13 am | Skoltech
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling. Their research was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering . The majority of solar panels ... More >>
New Technology For Superheavy Ion Spectroscopy
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 7:45 am | Skoltech
Scientists proposed technology for measuring the spectra of ions in superheavy chemical elements with atomic numbers above 102. Their research results were published in Physical Review Letters and presented in the Physics magazine. Artificial elements ... More >>
Machine Learning, Meet Human Emotions: How To Help A Computer Monitor Your Mental State
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 8:12 am | Skoltech
Researchers from Skoltech, INRIA, and the RIKEN Advanced Intelligence Project have considered several state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for the challenging tasks of determining the mental workload and affective states of a human brain. Their ... More >>
Creative Block Of Molecular Evolution: Adaptive Mutations Repeat Themselves In Tiny Crustaceans
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 8:21 am | Skoltech
A group of scientists from Skoltech and the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS (IITP RAS) showed, using Lake Baikal amphipods as an example, that parallel evolution driven by adaptations can be detected at the whole-genome level. ... More >>
