Andrey Vorchik studies happiness, delivers popular science lectures, and believes that science should address social issues as well. In an interview for the Young Scientists of HSE University project, he spoke about how emotions influence decision-making, the Bermuda Triangle formed by the bathroom, refrigerator, and bed, and the ideal formula for education.
Physicist Nina Dzhanayeva, recipient of a Vladimir Potanin Foundation scholarship, focuses her research on nanophotonics. In this interview for the HSE Young Scientists project, she discusses nanowells, scientific intuition, and how physics can help in making frangipane cream puffs.
A team of Russian researchers, including scientists from HSE University–St Petersburg, has developed the first open multimodal dataset containing recordings of brain activity, heart function, and video observations to help researchers understand what happens in the human brain during deep concentration. In the future, the dataset could accelerate the development of neural interfaces, rehabilitation technologies, and AI systems. The article has been published in Scientific Data.
Piskunova N., Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки 2013 Т. 3 № 2 С. 193–202
The article reviews the problem of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden using the technique of analytical monitoring for the period of 2010–2012. The work describes the current state of the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia, discusses the actions of pirates and pirate groups as well as the Somali government, and ...