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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. This might include geology, geography, chemistry, or another topic. Students work to understand and solve problems within game constructs. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. It’s new.

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

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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. What do the seminars teach students?

Biology 81
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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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His team began its research with the end goal of creating a sustainable and practical alternative to plastic packaging. But our research won’t stop there. Pathway from school to biological engineering Jeffrey says that biological engineering entails a robust understanding in maths, physics, chemistry and biology.

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

Stephen Wolfram

we’ve been steadily delivering the fruits of our research and development in.1 Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. One new construct added in Version 13.1 —and of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. 1 releases every six months.

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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. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy.

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

Stephen Wolfram

One of the key things that had originally let me start “scientifically investigating” cellular automata is that out of all the infinite number of possible constructible rules, I’d picked a modest number on which I could do exhaustive experiments. Of course, as is typical in the history of ideas, there’s more to the story.

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