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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben is working with Dr Julia Parrish, a professor at the University of Washington, who is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), an environmental, hands-on citizen science programme. Why is citizen science important? Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. But when it comes to mathematical research, and the frontiers of mathematics, one doesn’t immediately expect any such constraint.

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