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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! It’s a fantastic way to get students excited about science through hands-on learning.

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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. Not only these simulations are instinctive but also very manipulative, which boosts enthusiasm for natural science, chemistry, and geology. Mathematical 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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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.

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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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Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. Chemistry with Dr Nicole Hondow and Stuart Micklethwaite.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics. By the late 1970s, though, there were other initiatives emerging, particularly coming from mathematics and mathematical physics. Synergetics.