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

Futurum

When was the last time you looked at a computer, TV, phone or tablet? He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved. The problem is that considering every possible effect that contributes to momentum or energy is complicated,” he explains.

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

Futurum

Dr Narges Armanfard from McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada, has set up iSMART Lab to develop intelligent computer systems that can support medical professionals. Patient well-being Intelligent systems are innovative computer systems that can perceive and respond to the world around them.

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Can modern technology uncover the secrets of evolution?

Futurum

Micro-computed tomography (μCT) — a 3D imaging technique that uses X-rays to see inside objects. After re-assembling the broken rocks containing Elgin Reptile specimens, he scans them using micro-computed tomography (μCT). “A Research project : Using micro-computed tomography to uncover the secrets of the Elgin Reptiles.

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Exploring the Nature with Children: How to Become Their Mentor

Science and Steamteam

Amazingly, these figures don’t include time on the computer doing school work. ” Ask questions that nudge children to big ideas like the local flow of energy and matter. When I looked through a series of nature posters that I created last year to see what I could use in the post, I found one by the book’s author.

Science 98
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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. How Did We Get Here?

Energy 89
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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. The full ruliad is in effect a representation of all possible computations.

Physics 123