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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?

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

Stephen Wolfram

By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. It had seemed for a long time that heat was something a bit like mechanical energy, but the relation wasn’t clear—and the caloric theory of heat implied that caloric (i.e.

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

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Joanna is working with Nicole and Stuart on a project that involves an analytic technique called Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX).

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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. Other skills that will help you become a successful anthropologist include research, writing and public speaking skills.