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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

As winter begins, keeping kids both physically and mentally active becomes a challenging task for parents and educators. 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

AKHSHAY’S PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS. This not only helps scientists understand what is going on behind the scenes, and why, but also helps to enable the physics to be applied in technology in the future. He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. The lambda hyperon.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And there was something else: the computer system I’d built was a language that I’d realized (in a nod to my experience with reductionist physical science) would be the most powerful if it could be based on principles and primitives that were as minimal as possible. Mathematical physics. The Emergence of a New Kind of Science.

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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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