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7 Popular Science Museums

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Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels The Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels hosts the largest dinosaur exhibit in the world. The Museum of Natural Sciences contains several galleries and sections. Visit the website of City of Space. Visit the museum's website.

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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

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Focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities can be an excellent strategy to keep students engaged in winter. The Magic of Kitchen Chemistry Chemistry is all around us, especially in the kitchen! Homemade Slime: Combine glue, baking soda, and contact lens solution to create slime.

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Which STEM Games for Kids Inspires Your Young Learner’s Future?

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STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics which is a smart and immediate idea, to incorporate into the educational arena. These multi-disciplinary games stimulate spatial awareness, building and engineering concepts, and lastly critical thinking. Mathematical Toys. Engineering Toys.

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

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Mathematically, a sphere is the shape that minimises the surface area of a fixed volume, explaining why small water droplets on a flat surface take the shape of a spherical cap. JOSEPH’S MATHEMATICAL MODELS. Joseph builds mathematical models for the height of rivulets, based on mathematical equations. Applied Mathematics.

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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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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. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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Pathway from school to cognitive neuropsychology • At school and post-16 years old, subjects such as biology, chemistry, psychology, mathematics and English or other languages can provide a good foundation for an appropriate undergraduate degree at university.