Kids and adults are most welcome to a Pseudoscientific conference. This is not a lecture or a stand-up. This is a battle of ideas, where the winner is the one who is able to force logic and form to believe in the unthinkable.

You will learn how super-powerful electron microscopes work, what secrets of the universe they have already helped to uncover, and what new horizons they open in science and technology today.

Young Skoltech scientists will explain why E. coli is a true gourmet who understands exotic sugars, how viruses and bacteria have been playing evolutionary cat–and-mouse for billions of years, and whether computers really can read minds.

How do substances work and why do they behave so strangely: crystallize at a certain temperature, melt when heated, and then boil completely, turning into a gas? We will learn about this, as well as what a chemical reaction is, through the experiments.

Using live examples, young Skoltech scientists will show: how modern electrochemical storage devices work, what the new generation of solar panels are made of and how they are arranged, and what technologies will make water transport more environmentally friendly.

This lecture reveals the possibilities of modern technologies, allowing you to look into the future of megacities. Instead of the traditional trial and error method, engineers are able to predict possible problems in advance and prevent accidents.

Do the nuclear power plant employees put their feet on the reactor console? What can actually happen to a person who has received a short-term high dose of radiation? And what if he was bitten by a radioactive spider?

Is it possible to tell by brain activity that a joke got through And who is better at making jokes, men or women?

Mikhail Gelfand, PhD, Professor, member of Academia Europaea, Honorary member of the International Society for Computational Biology, Skoltech Vice President for Biomedical Research, will talk about immunity as an engineering system and a combination of three mechanisms: combinatorial, random and evolutionary.