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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

At the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in the US, biologists Barbara Barnhart and Dr Olivia Long are using their Science Seminar programme to ease this transition for first year students studying biology, chemistry and biochemistry degrees. One of their methods is a focus on case studies, looking at specific issues in detail.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis. Professor Jeffrey Catchmark and his team at Pennsylvania State University in the US believe they have one such solution, using common plant-based materials to create sustainable food packaging.

Biology 84
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Prototyping the STEMM K-12 Teachers of 2042 – Is It Possible?

National Science Foundation

Now, this is usually where I would launch into a well-honed set of arguments explicating the various economic, societal, and moral imperatives which make clear the need for America to tackle issues of equity and inclusion through a systemic transformation approach to cultivate a larger and more inclusive STEMM workforce.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

And for the past four years I’ve been sharing the “behind the scenes” of how it’s achieved—by livestreaming our Wolfram Language design review meetings. we have a new symbolic construct, Threaded , that effectively allows you to easily generalize listability. Why is such a construct needed? In designing Version 13.1 &#10005.

Calculus 114
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century.

Energy 88
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. Once again, I had no idea this was “out there”, and certainly I would never have been able to construct it myself. There is, however, a subtlety here. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0

Science 122