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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. Building Engineering Skills with Household Items Engineering isn’t just about complex machinery or the design of new structures.

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

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He uses these key factors to construct mathematical models that capture the key physical effects of nematic behaviour. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Other natural and artificial examples of soft matter include gels, paints, soap, blood, cosmetics and ice cream. FIELD OF RESEARCH.

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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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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. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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These technologies were developed by scientists and then translated by engineers to be used within biomedicine.” For this reason, Jin sees high and ever-growing demand for biomedical scientists and engineers in the future, with exciting opportunities for new entrants into the field.

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

Stephen Wolfram

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. Computer science is about programs and computations that we humans construct for certain purposes.

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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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This usually means a university student who is in training to become a teacher Self-learning — an approach to learning where students teach themselves by following instructions and figuring out answers on their own STEM — subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics When did you last make something in school?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Not surprisingly, it’s not particularly simple, though.

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