Science and technics

Experts say renewables won’t be the primary driver of reducing airborne emissions — this, instead, will be achieved by improving energy performance at industrial facilities

St. Petersburg–Qatar–Cape Town flight, initially scheduled for December 3, was cancelled due to a new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, emerging. How did the scientists get to the capital of South Africa?

Multi-metal 3D printing technology potential uses include the production of medical equipment. There is also a possible demand for it in the aerospace industry.

An award-winning innovative project comes as a result of interdisciplinary research. The research focuses on reducing sediment accumulating whilst storing petroleum products and recycling oily sludge found at the bottom of oil tanks.

SibFU researchers establish new catalysts helping to convert nitrates from sewage to a precious gas

Titan and Mining University have joined their efforts to study diesel fuel blends, with the expected outcome being the 40–60% reduction in exhaust emissions

Polish polar explorers, members of the scientific expedition to Antarctica, talk about the tasks they are facing, with their Russian colleagues sharing data on ocean pollution

Amongst the candidates for the positions of chairs and vice-chairs at the 24th World Petroleum Congress are five representatives from Mining University

Sumerian cuneiform is presumably the world’s earliest writing system. Yet billions of years before its invention, nature itself created a stone that looks to some like it was carved with writings in Arabic script, Germanic runes or Persian cuneiform. To others, the ’inscriptions’ may resemble math formulas and even Morse code characters.

St. Petersburg Mining University researchers, being aboard the vessel heading to the Vostok Research Station, share their impressions of how the 2nd week of the expedition went