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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

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And terms like “digital twins,” describing online copies of physical locations, have risen in prominence. A year ago, the concept of a metaversity was wrapped up in a version of the digital twin idea that sought to replicate the conditions of a big physical campus in the metaverse, Pomerantz says.

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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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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see? 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. Pinterest.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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glumae cannot cause BPB without this regulatory factor, our next research direction is to find the chemical compounds and physiological conditions that can disable its function,” explains Jong. Jong’s research is also focused on the beneficial interactions that could improve rice and soybean crop yields. “We

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

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AKHSHAY’S PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS. The research team (left to right): Ian Sage, Akhshay Bhadwal, Joseph Cousins, Nigel Mottram, Carl Brown and Stephen Wilson. This not only helps scientists understand what is going on behind the scenes, and why, but also helps to enable the physics to be applied in technology in the future.

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From Scientist to Shareholder: Why do it?

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The growing effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity and resource scarcity will require societal change and new technical solutions based on new scientific research. It is therefore vital that students see the benefits – for themselves and their societies – of learning national sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge.

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The Unknown Particles of the Universe

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Further research into elementary particles could yield explanations for black holes, gravity, and other unsolved mysteries currently present in the scientific world. The Standard Model of Elementary Particles was developed fairly recently in the early 1970s and has explained myriad phenomena related to quantum physics.