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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. I also enjoy meeting my laboratory members every morning to discuss our research projects and science in general.” In my free time, I like reading and watching videos about physics, astronomy and philosophy. Jong’s top tips 1.

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

Futurum

From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Synchrotron — a type of particle accelerator. billion lightyears.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. 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. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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