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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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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

The carbon energy from that sugar can be used to build an industrial biochemical that the first microbe would not be able to produce. Our team includes social science and humanities researchers who look at the policies and implications of synthetic biology,” says Ian. Changing the world?

Biology 73
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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 88
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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Why is it important for children to be immersed in nature and the environment?