Scientists Create a New Electronegativity Scale
Skoltech chemists have proposed a new electronegativity scale and published their findings in Nature Communications. The concept of electronegativity introduced by Linus Pauling, a great American…
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Optimal Human Landing System Architectures Identified for Landing on the Moon
Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs…
New High-Temperature Superconductor Synthesized by Scientists
An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, and Dr. Ivan Troyan from the Institute of Crystallography of RAS…
Chemists Discover a New Form of Ice
Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature…
New Method Developed to Study the “Traces” of Coronal Mass Ejections at the Sun
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria) developed an…
Using Machine Learning to Accurately Predict Rock Thermal Conductivity for Enhanced Oil Production
Skoltech scientists and their industry colleagues have found a way to use machine learning to accurately predict rock thermal conductivity, a crucial parameter for enhanced…
New Evolutionary Algorithm Predicts Optimal Materials Among All Possible Compounds
Skoltech researchers have offered a solution to the problem of searching for materials with required properties among all possible combinations of chemical elements. These combinations…
Russian Scientists Break Google’s Quantum Algorithm
Google is racing to develop quantum-enhanced processors that utilize quantum mechanical effects to one day dramatically increase the speed at which data can be processed….
“Impossible” Superconducting Compound Synthesized by Scientists
Scientists have created new superconducting compounds of hydrogen and praseodymium, a rare-earth metal, one substance being quite a surprise from the perspective of classical chemistry….
Superfast Charging High-Capacity Potassium Batteries Based on Organic Polymers
Skoltech researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS and the Ural Federal University have shown that high-capacity…
Holographic Duality Yields Breakthrough in Black Hole Physics
A group of Skoltech researchers led by Professor Anatoly Dymarsky studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a…