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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

Futurum

Also, it enables the professors to give us interactive and hands-on learning experiences, which makes learning fun. For me, the highlight so far has been getting to learn in the maker space and seeing the professors make great use of the space by providing hands-on activities.

STEM 81
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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

Materials and methods for the detection and treatment of diseases are better than ever, and a diverse array of scientists at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) , Australia, led by Professor Dayong Jin , are at the forefront of this continuous development. Recognition is rewarding, and I’m always proud to say I’m a professor.

Biology 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

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Be curious and open-minded.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

Energy 88
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And that fall, as a way to focus my efforts, I taught a “Topics in Theoretical Physics” course at Caltech (supposedly for graduate students but actually almost as many professors came too) on what, for want of a better name, I called “non-equilibrium statistical mechanics”. SMP Version 1.0 was ready in mid-1981.

Physics 95