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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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