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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

Futurum

Soybean is a high-energy, high-protein crop that is indispensable as animal feed. Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants. In my free time, I like reading and watching videos about physics, astronomy and philosophy.

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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. DR JOANNA LENG School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Pathway from school to RSE.

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

Stephen Wolfram

By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. It had seemed for a long time that heat was something a bit like mechanical energy, but the relation wasn’t clear—and the caloric theory of heat implied that caloric (i.e.

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