Even in the most optimistic scenario, the coronavirus disease outbreak in the Russian Federation will last for at least two months, Georgii Bazykin, Skoltech Professor, Chair of the Molecular Evolution Sector, IITP RAS, believes According to his forecast...
Даже при самом оптимистичном сценарии вспышка коронавируса в РФ продлится минимум два месяца, полагает профессор Сколтеха, завсектором молекулярной эволюции ИППИ РАН Георгий Базыкин По его прогнозу, в глобальном масштабе ситуация с COVID-19 может развиваться...
Представление об интернете вещей появилось два десятилетия назад, но за прошедшее время исследователи так и не договорились о едином определении того, что представляет собой IoT. «С экономической точки зрения интернет вещей представляет собой сложное...
More than 150 students, developers and scientists working in the field of neuroscience spent a sleepless weekend at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on November 16-18 for a neuro-hackathon , racing each other in teams to find solutions...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering schools set about tackling the widening gap between engineering...
Эти организмы появились на Земле задолго до нас, сыграли ключевую роль в эволюции и с большой долей вероятности переживут человечество. Речь о микробах, среди которых применительно к здоровью человека есть как «хорошие», так и «плохие»...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
“Will robots take over?” and “Will robots take our jobs?” are the most frequent robot predictions searched for on Google. The internet, alas, does not always have accurate answers. But if anyone knows what the future holds in store for...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
As the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference got underway at Skolkovo on Monday, representatives of innovation centres from around the world exchanged visions and experiences of how to create a successful innovation...
You have seven days to think up an original idea for a tech startup. You are put in a team with several other people whom you haven’t met before and whose area of expertise is not the same as yours. After a week, you will present your project to a team...
“The Shaolin Temple itself is a 1,500-year-old startup,” unexpectedly declares Shi Xing Mi, a Shaolin monk dressed in a mustard-coloured martial arts outfit. “It may sound like an oxymoron, but in Shaolin culture, being a startup is not a...
A presentation of Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing vacuum train, a drone race and business leadership tips from a Shaolin monk are among the highlights of this year’s Startup Village, the annual open-air large-scale conference for tech entrepreneurs...
Leading experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence from around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Friday for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event. The annual Skolkovo Robotics event attracted both human robot-makers...
Robots of all shapes, sizes and functions will be busting out of the labs and taking to the streets of the Skolkovo innovation centre on May 20 for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event, attended by robots – and their creators – from all over Russia...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
Мировые инвестиции в возобновляемые источники энергии в 2015 году были вдвое больше, чем в уголь и газ, подсчитал журнал New Scientist. Насколько устойчива эта «зеленая» тенденция и где место России в глобальном походе за возобновляемой энергетикой...
Robots are poised to cause millions of people to lose their jobs, government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote on Monday. Some people fear that jobs are just the tip of the iceberg, and that robots represent a threat to the existence of the human race. ...
Популяризация российской науки необходима как внутри страны для привлечения новых кадров и информирования общества о деятельности ученых, так и в зарубежной научной среде и СМИ. Такое мнение высказали участники круглого стола «Образ российской науки в...
In an article last week, the Financial Times wrote that the concept of the BRICS group of emerging economies was dead, arguing that Russia and Brazil’s dependence on commodities exports had led to them being usurped by tech-heavy economies Taiwan and...
В 1881 году знаменитый ирландский ученый Уильям Томпсон предупредил, что Британия движется к неминуемой катастрофе, потому что вскоре она окажется без источника энергии, которым в то время был уголь. Именно уголь создал «века пара», что позволило...
В конце 2015 года коллектив китайских ученых опубликовал в журнале Lancet статью, в которой подвел итоги многолетних наблюдений и сообщил об открытии гена трансмиссивной устойчивости к мощному антибиотику колистин. Таким образом, сбылись мрачные прогнозы многих...