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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Ben is working with Dr Julia Parrish, a professor at the University of Washington, who is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), an environmental, hands-on citizen science programme. Why is citizen science important? Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But when it comes to mathematical research, and the frontiers of mathematics, one doesn’t immediately expect any such constraint. And when it comes to mathematics and proving theorems, cases that we use for exercises or competitions we similarly want to be hard, but not too hard.

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Urban farming for urban families

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In the early 1990s, I was doing my doctoral research in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.