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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

Below are five engineering activities that use everyday items: Popsicle Stick Bridges: Use popsicle sticks and glue to construct bridges. This experiment teaches about impact forces and materials science. This is a fun way to explore geometric shapes and stability in construction.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

Futurum

He uses these key factors to construct mathematical models that capture the key physical effects of nematic behaviour. If you are interested in soft matter, it would also be good to study another science, such as chemistry or biology. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

Probes constructed from nanoparticles can enter cells themselves, attaching to proteins or other substances within the cell. Having a fundamental understanding of the underlying biology is critical when translating discoveries from the lab to the clinic,” she explains. “We

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

Futurum

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Scientific imaging in physics.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

Could it really be that this was the secret that nature had been using all along to make complexity? But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. What is that science?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. Vastly more ornate “food constructions” might become the norm.

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