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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 chemistry.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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The main aim of this student-led, community-driven project was to improve sanitation in Thastayoc by providing clean water and constructing latrines and bio-digesters for the community. The community selected the option most appropriate for their needs and gave input as the final design was planned and constructed.

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How is mathematics applied to real world problems?

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It is an incredibly useful field with a wide range of applications from biological and social sciences to computer animation and finance. The areas it can be used in are vast, including physical and biological sciences, engineering, social sciences and other diverse fields, from computer animation to finance and economics.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Whenever anyone wants to build anything, they must submit an environmental impact statement to show how the environmental impacts of the construction will be minimised. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I started studying chemistry because it seemed like something I would be able to get a job in.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have. It’s not exactly “solving science”, and it wouldn’t even allow one to “discover the unexpected”.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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However, all of these devices pale in comparison to a new bit of kit that is currently under construction at the lab. Once the team has chosen a location that it wants to construct a model for, the researchers need to collect data. These models we run use many, many data inputs,” says Erica. For me, this is the best part,” says Kate.

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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.