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7 Popular Science Museums

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Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels The Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels hosts the largest dinosaur exhibit in the world. The Museum of Natural Sciences contains several galleries and sections. Visit the website of City of Space. Visit the museum's website.

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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

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It is therefore vital that students see the benefits – for themselves and their societies – of learning national sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics. Sandra Tarré is a Secondary Natural Science teacher. Amanda Santos is the Prime School Marketing & Communications Manager. Career choice.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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Literacy skills have a profound impact on a person’s life,” says Dr Jacqueline Cummine, a professor at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine – Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Alberta. They won first place for Outstanding Communication! (©

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

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Other natural and artificial examples of soft matter include gels, paints, soap, blood, cosmetics and ice cream. From climate science and healthcare to business and robotics, a degree in physics can take you just about anywhere. . FIELD OF RESEARCH.

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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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Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.

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

Stephen Wolfram

In a sense, the concept of taking phenomena and drilling down to find their underlying essential causes is at the heart of reductionist science. But as this has traditionally been practiced, it’s relied on being able to see one’s way through this “drilling down” process, or in effect, to explicitly do reverse engineering.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. His first significant work—in 1778—was entitled Memoir on the Theory of Machines.

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