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

Researchers calculate soil freezing depth from satellite data

A team of researchers from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Institute for Water and Environmental Problems of the Siberian Branch of RAS, and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has...
2-Aug-2019 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Physicists OK commercial graphene for T-wave detection

Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology have demonstrated resonant absorption of terahertz radiation in commercially available graphene. This is an important step...
2-Jul-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Russian engineers ready to ‘light up’ a lamp revolution

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have designed and tested a prototype cathodoluminescent lamp for general lighting. The new lamp, which relies on the...
2-Jul-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists dissolve crude oil in water to study its composition

Researchers from MIPT, Skoltech, the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Lomonosov Moscow State University have offered a new approach to oil composition analysis. They used high temperature and pressure to...
21-Jun-2019 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Physicists Create Prototype Superefficient Memory for Future Computers

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have achieved material magnetization switching on the shortest timescales, at a minimal energy cost. They have thus developed a...
14-May-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Biophysicists Resolve True Structure of Highly Promising Optogenetic Protein KR2 Rhodopsin

A team of biophysicists has discovered and studied the structure of the KR2 rhodopsin under physiological conditions. This pioneering work breaks ground for a future breakthrough in optogenetics, a highly relevant area of biomedicine with...
7-May-2019 11:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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