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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

The team will be investigating how to manufacture the plant-based packaging using fewer resources and chemicals, less energy, and with an eye on any other socio-ecological impacts. © Dr Maria Spencer About biological engineering Biological engineering integrates concepts from life sciences with practices from engineering.

Biology 84
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? A typical workflow for systems engineering begins with the setting up of a model. is PositionSmallest. is PositionSmallest.

Computer 102
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

I think Yves Pomeau already had a theoretical argument for this, but as far as I was concerned, it was (at least at first) just a “next thing to try”. People had discussed reaction-diffusion patterns as examples of structure being formed “away from equilibrium”. What kinds of models could realistically be made for these?

Physics 95