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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

Futurum

Jong and his team use various tools and techniques from molecular biology and genetics to study B. Jong and his team have had great success investigating the biology of B. Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants.

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How to Celebrate National STEM Day

STEMe

Students interested in space could visit one of the many NASA centers for a deeper look at aerospace technology and astronomy exhibits. Students who enjoy biology might visit a natural science museum to explore fossils of extinct creatures, such as dinosaurs.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Biology with Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Alistair Curd. Dr Sarah Harris Theoretical physicist, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses. Well, Boltzmann had been an enthusiast of Darwin’s idea of natural selection. Experience provides on the contrary a number of irreversible phenomena. What about biological evolution?

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