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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

Futurum

Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants. If there is a local gardening group, botanical garden or horticultural society in your area, contact them to see how you could get involved to learn more about plant science.

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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

This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses. After graduating in 1844 he started teaching at a top high school in Berlin (which he did for 6 years), and meanwhile earned his PhD in physics.

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