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

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

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The research team (left to right): Ian Sage, Akhshay Bhadwal, Joseph Cousins, Nigel Mottram, Carl Brown and Stephen Wilson. He uses these key factors to construct mathematical models that capture the key physical effects of nematic behaviour. School of Science and Technology. FIELD OF RESEARCH. FIELD OF RESEARCH.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And it seemed only natural to label what could now be done as “ complex systems theory ”: a theory of systems that show complexity, even from simple rules. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science. It’s been 36 years now.

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San Diego Zoo Global offers more than fun for kids with teacher training

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One such source is San Diego Zoo Global, which provides science teachers nationwide the chance for hands-on experiences in wildlife and conservation research that can be carried back to the classroom. Many of our “alumni” describe the program as the best professional development experience of their career.

Biology 40
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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.

Energy 88
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

One of the key things that had originally let me start “scientifically investigating” cellular automata is that out of all the infinite number of possible constructible rules, I’d picked a modest number on which I could do exhaustive experiments. Of course, as is typical in the history of ideas, there’s more to the story.

Physics 95