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Scientific with discovery: hydrogen drone, Soviet electric car and mental GTO
The IV Congress of Young Scientists opened at Sirius, which this year gathered more than 7,000 participants from 60 countries. The event showcased the best Russian technological developments, including a hydrogen-fueled cargo drone and the "Mental TRP" for assessing the state of the brain. The program participants discussed the priorities of scientific development of the country. The central event of the first day of the Congress was the session "Bioeconomy: the first stage of creating a nature-like technosphere", moderated by Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute. The scientist noted that Russia has a powerful historical base for leadership in biotechnology, and successes in genetics guarantee its sovereignty in this field.
The best innovative developments
On November 27, the IV Congress of Young Scientists (CYS) opened at the Sirius University of Science and Technology. This year's theme was "Priorities of scientific and technological development: creating the future today".
Traditionally, the first guests of the Congress are greeted by an exhibition, where the brightest scientific and technological developments of research organizations from all over the country are presented. This year, the electric car at Skoltech's stand, based on a Soviet retro car manufactured in 1967, aroused great interest. It was invented to work out the most modern algorithms and approaches in controlling electric vehicles.
Soviet retro electric car
- Originally developed for Enduro-type electric motorcycles, the bi-directional converter with supercapacitors provides short-term power pulses needed to overcome difficult sections of the track, such as steep climbs. However, its application goes far beyond sporting events. In electric vehicles in general, the system extends the life of the battery, smoothing out its peak loads, and increases the efficiency of regenerative braking by absorbing large currents during deceleration, which the battery is not always able to accept," Federico Ibanez, associate professor at the Skoltech Center for Energy Technologies, told Izvestia.
The congress participants were also given the opportunity to assess the functional state of their brains. For this purpose, Nizhny Novgorod State University has developed a special system of tests, which was called "Mental TRP" by analogy with the famous set of physical standards "Ready for Labor and Defense".
- We present the "Mental TRP" program. We have come to the conclusion that it is very important to monitor the state of the brain. It needs training just like the body, and we need to understand what is happening to it. Old age is primarily age-related changes in this organ. But if you exercise the brain and do special exercises, you can stay young even at 80 and 90 years old. Based on the achievements of psychophysiology and neurobiology, we have developed a system of elementary tests that do not depend on the level of education or intelligence, but they show our reaction speed and how quickly we solve cognitive conflicts," said Maria Vedunova, Director of the Lobachevsky Institute of Biology and Biomedicine at NNGU.
Mental TRP test
The company "Hydrogen Energy Center" presented at the exhibition a working sample of an unmanned aerial vehicle powered by hydrogen. Its characteristics far exceed the capabilities of conventional battery-powered UAVs.
- The cylinder is pressurized with hydrogen at 350 atmospheres. It enters the fuel cell, where a chemical reaction with oxygen takes place and electricity is released. The device can fly continuously for up to four hours, while the analog on a conventional battery only 60-70 minutes. It can be used at temperatures from -20 to +40 °C to deliver cargo to hard-to-reach places. The flight speed is 56 km/h, range up to 240 km," Timofey Sergienko of the Hydrogen Energy Center told Izvestia.
Genetic sovereignty
This time the CMU gathered more than 7 thousand participants from 60 countries. More than 800 specialists will present their reports here. In total, the program includes more than 200 events.
One of the central events of the first day of the congress was the session "Bioeconomics: the first stage of creation of nature-like technosphere". The discussion was moderated by Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute.
As the organizers noted, Russia is creating a program for the development of nature-like technologies and has two federal scientific and technical programs: development of genetic, as well as synchrotron and neutron research. These initiatives are aimed at the formation of bioeconomy in the country, which should include the most important spheres of human life: agriculture, food, medicine, pharmaceuticals, industry, energy, environmental protection and biological safety. On the basis of the research center, the Scientific and Technological Center of Bioeconomy and Biotechnology was established, which united all leading scientific organizations in this field.
The head of the Kurchatov Institute reminded that in the 60-70s our country had one of the best biotechnology industries in the world. However, now its revival has begun. Genetics is becoming the basis for this.
"We have put the sequencing of genomes on the stream. Then comes the processing of this data by bioinformatics methods. The results are put into a national database of genetic research. All this creates the basis for the genetic sovereignty of the country," said Mikhail Kovalchuk.
The scientist emphasized that bioeconomics is the first stage of creating a nature-like technosphere. And Russia has research opportunities, scientific schools, and the richest bioresources, including the world's largest biocollections.
From quantum communications to quantum Internet
On the opening day, Sirius discussed not only scientific but also creative issues. The guests of the congress spoke at the session "The image of a scientist on the screen. What will he be tomorrow?".
- There is a lot of pseudo-documentary content on the Internet, which completely lacks expertise. In contrast, quality documentaries always involve qualified experts. There is always verified information. It is presented in an interesting and modern way. In the way that today's viewer is used to. With actor inserts and graphics. We plan to develop this direction, as we see the interest of the audience to historical and scientific cinema, - said the development director of "NMG Doc" Alexey Fedorko.
According to him, such projects as "The Greats", "What We Know About the Universe" and "Body as a Gadget" can be called successful examples of scientific content.
Also within the framework of the congress a solemn ceremony of signing an agreement on the creation of a scientific and educational consortium, whose members will take part in the work in the Interuniversity Quantum Network (IQN), created by order of the President of Russia. В состав объединения вошли НИЦ «Курчатовский институт», который осуществляет научное руководство и администрирование МУКС, Московский университет им. Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Lobachevsky University in Nizhny Novgorod, ITMO University in St. Petersburg, and S.P. Korolev Samara University. S.P. Korolev University.
The participants will use this network for scientific and educational purposes for the development of quantum technologies, as well as for the development of university technological entrepreneurship and together with industrial partners for the realization of scenarios of practical use of quantum data transfer systems.
The IV Congress of Young Scientists will last until November 29.
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