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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. I also enjoy meeting my laboratory members every morning to discuss our research projects and science in general.” A great joy for me is discovering new things about the microbial world surrounding crop plants and plant defence systems,” says Jong. “I

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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How to engineer a microbe Synthetic biology makes use of the rapidly progressing science of genetic engineering, which involves changing an organism’s genes so that it will express different proteins. The carbon energy from that sugar can be used to build an industrial biochemical that the first microbe would not be able to produce.

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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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From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Chemistry with Dr Nicole Hondow and Stuart Micklethwaite.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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Literacy skills have a profound impact on a person’s life,” says Dr Jacqueline Cummine, a professor at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine – Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Alberta. The enthusiasm and energy that emerging scientists bring to research is a constant rejuvenation! “An

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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. School of Science and Technology. This is where Joseph comes in. DR AKHSHAY BHADWAL.

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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. But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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Urban farming for urban families

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Recently, I was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for my “distinguished contributions to the field of anthropology, particularly for research and programmes mitigating global food insecurity, especially for marginalised populations, in relation to HIV/AIDS and nutritionally related diseases”.