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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

To investigate these questions, a team of researchers from across the world combined their skills and expertise to perform some intriguing experiments. “We The computer was instructed to make its guesses based on the properties the researchers had measured. Or are their effects unpredictable?

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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Into the light Jin specialises in using photonics – the science of light – within biomedicine. “We Jin’s photonics research uses nanotechnology to see how light interacts with molecules themselves, which relies on drawing expertise from different areas. “We I think I’ve achieved a lot.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

Meet David I majored in anthropology and biology at university. I took courses with a biological anthropologist who inspired me to study how humans use biology and culture to adapt (or not) to stressful environments such as food scarcity, extreme temperatures, and common diseases.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

While it is obvious how sight is involved in reading, research has also uncovered the important roles of hearing and touch. In goal-based training, individuals set their own goals associated with reading and we design activities to help them achieve them.” Our eyes, ears and touch systems all play important roles in reading.”

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal. Futures Channel.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

Futurum

The research team (left to right): Ian Sage, Akhshay Bhadwal, Joseph Cousins, Nigel Mottram, Carl Brown and Stephen Wilson. School of Science and Technology. FIELD OF RESEARCH. FIELD OF RESEARCH. RESEARCH PROJECT. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Experimental Physics.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

Could it really be that this was the secret that nature had been using all along to make complexity? And it seemed only natural to label what could now be done as “ complex systems theory ”: a theory of systems that show complexity, even from simple rules. So what became of the “complex systems research” I championed in 1985?