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.
Braginskaya N., Шмаина-Великанова А. И., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 249–265
The article examines an episode from a prophetic dream, Visio Saturi, included in a collection of documents entitled Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (cа. 203 CE). In this episode, Satur, a catechist of a group of young people who is condemned to death along with them, sees his own and Perpetua’s posthumous existence. Leaving their bodies ...
Braginskaya N., Lebedev P., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2023 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 237–255
The early Christian work “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity” consists of different parts combined into a single book. Three parts are generally accepted: 1) Perpetua’s Notes, 2) Saturus’s Vision, 3) the Eyewitness story and the Prologue and Epilogue written by the same author. We argue that the Prologue plus Epilogue and the Eyewitness story had different authors ...
Braginskaya N., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2022 Т. 18 № 1 С. 48–77
One of the characters of “Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis” bears the name Revocatus. He is a Saint martyr worshipped in all Christian Churches. In the early Byzantine Acts of the fifth century, where he is declared to be the brother of Felicitas, he takes part in the events and is subjected to an interrogation. In ...