Выжимать воду из камня? Это не заявка на Шнобелевскую премию, а вполне практичная идея совместного проекта Сколтеха и МГУ, позволяющая по капле воды определять, как устроены запасы нефти в пласте. Путь от этой капли воды к баррелям нефти лежит через создание...
В китайской системе символов число 100 олицетворяет совершенство; 101 – это следующая ступень на пути к еще большему совершенству, что объясняет, почему самый высокий небоскреб на Тайване (и в течение нескольких лет – в мире), Taipei 101, получил...
«Корейские компании разрабатывают различные современные протезы, но я впервые увидел, как можно по беспроводной связи, со смартфона, управлять бионическим протезом. Это очень впечатляет», - заявил вице-премьер Южной Кореи Хон Намги, познакомившийся...
Фонд «Сколково» принимает участие в открывшейся сегодня в «Крокус Экспо» ежегодной выставке для предпринимателей независимой розницы и гостинично-ресторанного бизнеса METRO EXPO 2019. На стенде Фонда представлены новые разработки...
Ambassadors from more than 50 countries visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday to meet with the Skolkovo Foundation’s senior management and hear more about opportunities for international tech companies and startups. An ambassador tests...
«Сколково» - международный, открытый, прозрачный проект, - заявил на традиционной предновогодней встрече с дипломатическим корпусом в иннограде Президент Фонда Виктор Вексельберг, - и этот ключевой принцип был заложен с первого дня работы «Сколково»...
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...
In a year in which supercomputer capacity records are sure to be smashed once again, the European Union has already said it will spend 1 billion euros this year on the machines, which can be used to calculate anything from weather forecasts and oil and gas...
The Skolkovo International Gymnasium began the new school year on Friday in a brand new purpose-built building with more than twice as many pupils as last year. Children line up with flowers to give their teacher, as is traditional in Russia, outside...
Gifted schoolchildren from the Urals cities of Perm and Yekaterinburg visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Friday to see some of the technologies being developed here and to learn about a new scholarship being launched for Russian students to study at the...
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...
Amid the hazardous hairstyles and improbable outfits on display at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia last week, it was hard to stand out. But in one of the cavernous rooms of Moscow’s Manezh, where the event took place, some of the startups displaying...
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...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the Skolkovo innovation city that he founded in 2010 during his tenure as president on Tuesday, where he inspected some of the tech startups supported by his brainchild project. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
Japan’s Panasonic Corporation may be primarily associated in the public mind with consumer electronics, but in some parts of the world, it is selling a very different kind of product: vegetables. Panasonic has branched out to grow lettuce and other...
The Skolkovo innovation centre graduated to the status of a true city on Tuesday with the arrival of its first residents, who received the keys to their brand new homes at a celebratory housewarming event. Two of Skolkovo's youngest new residents...
Nine innovative resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation are heading to London next week to exhibit their products at Bett , a major international EdTech trade show taking place from January 25 to January 28. The giant education trade fair is attended...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
Geopolitical tensions will one day be in the past, but the future lies in innovations, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg told a packed audience of the foundation’s startups on the third and final day of the Open Innovations forum Friday...
Two Skolkovo startups made international headlines earlier this year when they announced that they were working together on a 3D printer for the International Space Station that would be able to print satellites directly in space. Several months later, the...
Skolkovo is to become a testing centre for driverless buses with the setting up of a research and development centre by innovative bus-maker Volgabus . The driverless bus developed jointly by Bakulin Motors Group and Skolkovo resident KB Avrora. Photo...
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...