The Energy Transition Initiative is a new program being considered by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the educational arm of the Skolkovo ecosystem. The Skoltech Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery is creating the program with the aim...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation council reviewed the results of its corporate acceleration programmes and Skoltech ’s oil and gas lab at their quarterly meeting on Tuesday evening, and also discussed the foundation’s participation in the Greater Skolkovo...
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...
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...
A new state-of-the-art Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AM Lab) opened at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on Tuesday, boasting a globally unrivaled collection of 3D printers. The Insstek MX 1000, the biggest 3D printer...
Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
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...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) unveiled its Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery’s new state-of-the-art laboratory on June 6 during the annual Startup Village, when Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Skolkovo Foundation...
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...
An international team of students and graduates from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) will present its project for a two-person flyby past Mars at the Gemini Mars Design Competition in Washington D.C. in September after it was selected...
Friends and families of the students of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology came to the research university from all over the world on Thursday to see their loved ones graduate. The graduates toss their mortarboard caps up into the air outside...
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. ...
The Skolkovo Foundation is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn, when its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), is set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said...
As Russia marked Russian Science Day on February 8, a delegation from Germany’s Helmholtz Association of research centres visited the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to discuss ways of improving cooperation between the two countries’...
An intrepid team of students from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) has swapped Moscow’s snowdrifts and freezing temperatures for a mission to Mars – at least, to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the U.S. state...
Perhaps not so many people know about the pioneering and leading roles that Italy has played over the last sixty years in the exploration and exploitation of space, writes Skoltech's Assistant Professor Alessandro Golkar in a piece, contributed to Sk.ru...
From its beginning, one of Skoltech’s guiding principles was to interface with industrial commercialization and venture opportunities as they develop at Skolkovo and elsewhere. This week Skoltech has realized this principle, as it has signed its first...
Skolkovo’s newly opened Far Eastern branch has selected its first batch of startups to acquire participant status, marking a new stage in the foundation’s mission to expand into new territories. Skolkovo senior VP Alexander Chernov, and Vasily...
A Skoltech team led by assistant professor Alessandro Golkar is analyzing the results yielded by four research balloons launched to the edge of space. The view from a Skoltech research balloon. Photograph: skoltech.ru The helium balloons carried...
Deep in the Russian provinces on Tuesday morning, a team of Russian students launched four helium balloons into the stratosphere with scientific experiments designed to advance our understanding of how composite materials, new batteries and other technology...