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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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Soybean is a high-energy, high-protein crop that is indispensable as animal feed. Pathway from school to plant pathology • As well as studying biology and chemistry at school, try to get practical experience of working with plants. Unpredictable weather conditions are the most challenging part of field experiments,” says Jong. “We

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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The enthusiasm and energy that emerging scientists bring to research is a constant rejuvenation! “An There is a lot of ‘tradition’ with regards to ideas and approaches, which I feel can sometimes impede our ability to move science forward efficiently. An ongoing challenge for my field is trying to buck the status quo.

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

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He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved. The problem is that considering every possible effect that contributes to momentum or energy is complicated,” he explains. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics.

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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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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Chemistry with Dr Nicole Hondow and Stuart Micklethwaite. Most RSEs have a degree and/or PhD in their chosen area, such as maths, physics or chemistry.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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The carbon energy from that sugar can be used to build an industrial biochemical that the first microbe would not be able to produce. Synthetic biologists use them like tiny workspaces for novel chemistry. (© Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology.

Biology 73
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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. By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And I spent much of the summer of 1972 writing my own (unseen by anyone else for 30+ years) Concise Directory of Physics that included a rather stiff page about energy, mentioning entropy—along with the heat death of the universe. For a couple of months I didn’t look seriously at the book. mode, often accompanied by rapid physical rewiring.

Physics 95