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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This experiment helps students understand the Earth’s rotation, the changing angle of sunlight during the day, and the basics of astronomy. This is a great option for middle school students looking to incorporate fall STEM lessons into their at-home learning.

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A star is born – using next generation telescopes to explore star formation

Futurum

The PAF technology is brand-new in radio astronomy and provides a significant upgrade on traditional radio telescopes, which have only a few receivers, at most. Astrophysics courses at university usually start with lots of mathematics and physics before specialising into more advanced physics and astrophysics.

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

Futurum

This reaction releases huge amounts of energy, which is why stars radiate so much heat and light. This energy also stops stars from collapsing in on themselves under the pressure of gravity. Imagine you want to take a photo of your school. Would this be practical if your school was as big as the Milky Way?

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Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics

Futurum

Published: We know that black holes exist through a mix of complex mathematics and astrophysics but linking mathematical ideas to what we can observe in the Universe is no easy task. Quantum physics — the study of matter and energy at the most fundamental level, where matter behaves both like particles and waves.

Physics 68
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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

Futurum

Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. DR JOANNA LENG School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK.

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

I had an amazing chemistry and biology teacher in high school, who inspired me to study chemistry with biochemistry. I enjoyed it in school, where physics classes were about mechanics, perhaps because I enjoyed playing with toy planes and cars and building primitive catapults. Once I started studying at university, I was hooked!