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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more.

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Could a nettle a day keep the doctor away?

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Dr Diana Obanda, Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Food Science, is on the case. Nutrition and food science researchers try to understand how what we eat affects our health. To prepare for these programmes, take chemistry and biology at school. . • To prepare for these programmes, take chemistry and biology at school.

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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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Monitoring the canopy temperature of forests

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Photosynthesis — the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy. DR SOPHIE FAUSET School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK. Field of research : Environmental Science. ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. DR SHALOM D.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Most people suffered no more than a bad cough, a lack of energy, and a loss of taste and smell. Learning probability without being able to create computer models is like learning chemistry without being able to do experiments,” says Min. • What is a network? “A A big part of a statistician’s job is to help other scientists!”