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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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Culture and biology “For thousands of years, art has been used to communicate the experiences and emotions of daily life,” says Dr Claudia Damiano, previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at GestaltReVision Lab, KU Leuven, in Belgium, and now Research Associate at Toronto’s Department of Psychology.

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

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Biology with Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Alistair Curd. Sarah’s interests are in understanding biology. “I Scientific imaging in in cell biology.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. Some of it seems intrinsic to our biological nature. It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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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 I’ve thought of ruliology as being at first a bit like natural history. But at least it would have a home.

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Urban farming for urban families

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Meet David I majored in anthropology and biology at university. I took courses with a biological anthropologist who inspired me to study how humans use biology and culture to adapt (or not) to stressful environments such as food scarcity, extreme temperatures, and common diseases. Cultivate curiosity and share your knowledge.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Maxwell included one last section in his book that to us today might seem quite wild: In other words, aware of Darwin ’s (1809–1882) 1859 Origin of Species , he’s considering a kind of “speciation” of molecules, along the lines of the discrete species observed in biology. talked about “negative entropy” associated with life.

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