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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

Focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities can be an excellent strategy to keep students engaged in winter. The Magic of Kitchen Chemistry Chemistry is all around us, especially in the kitchen! It’s a fantastic way to get students excited about science through hands-on learning.

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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. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Other natural and artificial examples of soft matter include gels, paints, soap, blood, cosmetics and ice cream. 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. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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

Stephen Wolfram

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. Computer science is about programs and computations that we humans construct for certain purposes.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But even as I was developing the critical-to- Wolfram-Language -to-this-day paradigm of basing everything on transformations for symbolic expressions, as well as leading the software engineering to actually build SMP, I was also continuing to think about physics and its foundations. floating-point) numerical computation.

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