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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. Why is citizen science important?

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

So what about science? But that certainly doesn’t mean AI can’t importantly help the progress of science. But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

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”.