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Participation in International Biomass Conference and Expo
Bioenergy LLC became the only Russia-based company, participated in International Biomass Conference & Expo, that took part 11-14th April in Charlotte, NC, USA. WiseSoil technology attracted attention...

Government sets up working group for development of robotics in Russia
Albert Yefimov, director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Robocentre, is to head a government working group that will produce a plan for the development of Russian robotics. Skolkovo Robocentre head...

Memoirs of an astronaut: Fire, broccoli and crushing g-force
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German...

Queens of the FinTech age: Hong Kong delegation visits Skolkovo
Hong Kong’s startup scene is one of the fastest growing in the world, and the global financial centre has been dubbed Asia’s FinTech hub for the explosion of tech solutions for financial services...

Vodafone Turkey launches cloud service using Skolkovo-made Cloudike platform
The Turkish division of mobile network heavyweight Vodafone is now offering its customers cloud storage using a platform created by Skolkovo resident ASD Tehnolodzhiz. Vodafone Turkey used the Cloudike...

Space cooperation can bridge any political crisis, ESA head tells Skoltech students
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich...

System for detecting jumbo diamonds attracts attention of mining heavyweight Alrosa
A Skolkovo Foundation resident company that has developed a system for detecting large diamonds within kimberlite ores looks set to see mining giant Alrosa among its first customers, the director of science...

Wells Fargo mobile app wins award for authentication technology designed by Skolkovo resident STC
Wells Fargo has won a Most Innovative Feature Award for its use of a mobile biometric authentication system developed by Skolkovo resident Speech Technology Center (STC). The U.S. bank’s mobile app...

Who do you think you are? Conference puts Russian genome research in spotlight
National genome projects that study the gene pool of a specific country can not only reveal much about a country’s history and its inhabitants’ roots, they can also bring about advances in...