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How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields

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STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and covers an immense range of subject areas. Scientific research thrives off the exploration of chemistry and biology, in addition to climatic initiatives such as sustainable and nuclear power. Labs Lost to Educational Rigidity.

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Can machine learning cope with the erratic and uncertain nature of the real world?

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At the University of Southern California , USA, Dr Haipeng Luo has been conducting innovative new research in the field of machine learning to bring these exciting technologies within reach. ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems. LIMITATIONS OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING.

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Can we harness the power of the oceans?

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The wind and sun are both renewable, and capturing their energy does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, so why bother developing new technology for the oceans where we have to deal with corrosive saltwater and challenging logistics of installation and maintenance? HOW CAN COMPUTERS HELP BUILD THE PERFECT SYSTEM?

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What causes problems with the lower urinary tract?

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In the US, a team of doctors and researchers, including Professor Cindy L. To improve these treatment outcomes, Cindy has received grant funding from the US National Institute of Health (NIH) to support research to help understand the different subtypes of lower urinary tract symptoms and the causes for each group.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. Davis hopes his research findings in Cusco can influence transport policies in Peru and beyond. FIELDS OF RESEARCH : Engineering for Human Rights, Transportation Engineering.

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Growing a community: building the Plant Cell Atlas

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This means that research teams tend to focus on discovering more about specific, often quite niche, topics. Networking and training opportunities will help strengthen collaboration, not only on scientific research itself but also exploring funding opportunities and developing useful shared tools and methods. WHY WE NEED THE ATLAS.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Developing new kinds of computational diagrams. I started a journal and a research center, and collected my papers in a book entitled Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata (later reissued as Cellular Automata and Complexity ). But its creation took more than a decade of my life. Figuring out more and more science.

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