EuPhO 2020: Triple gold and more medals for Russian students

Russian high schoolers earn gold, silver, bronze medals at European Physics Olympiad
28-Jul-2020 10:40 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Tiny titanium wields great power to shape crystals

Researchers from MIPT and their colleagues from Ural Federal University have combined optical and acoustic approaches and found that incorporating titanium atoms into barium hexaferrite leads to an unexpected substructure forming in the crystal...
27-Jul-2020 11:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

DNA reveals 2,500-year-old Siberian warrior was a woman

In 1988, archaeologists from the RAS Institute for the History of Material Culture discovered a unique Scythian burial mound dating from the seventh century B.C. In one of the coffins, they found what was long believed to be the mummified remains of...
21-Jul-2020 8:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

ICPC 2020 World Finals Moscow: Day Zero

ICPC University Commons online activities will kick start on 27 June 2020 with the ICPC 2020 World Finals Moscow: Day Zero. Due to unprecedented travel challenges, ICPC 2020 Moscow hosted by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)...
15-Jun-2020 11:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

QS rankings makes MIPT best Russian tech university

The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings places MIPT at No. 281 globally, up 21 positions from last year’s results. The Institute has the highest standing of all Russian technical universities featured in the league table.
10-Jun-2020 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Cosmic quasars embrace 1970s fashion trend

Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars — spinning black holes that produce beams of plasma. The team has found that the shape of these so-called astrophysical jets changes from parabolic to...
8-Jun-2020 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Reveal Secret of 18th-Century Portrait From Russia’s Tretyakov Gallery

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, and Russia’s famed Tretyakov Gallery have conducted a comprehensive preconservation study of “The Portrait of...
19-Mar-2020 10:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Sun, wind, and hydrogen: New Arctic station will do without diesel fuel

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has initiated a project of the Russian Federation called “Arctic Hydrogen Energy Applications and Demonstrations” (AHEAD) in the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group...
5-Feb-2020 2:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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