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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

Futurum

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There was also a sense that regardless of its foundations, the Second Law was successfully used in practice.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We’ve also built our groundbreaking symbolic computational geometry system that lets us flexibly describe regions for PDEs. We can also take a single video and β€œsummarize” it as a series of video + audio snippets, chosen for example equally spaced in the video. But if you’re doing astronomy they can really matter. In Version 13.0