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

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AKHSHAY’S PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS. This not only helps scientists understand what is going on behind the scenes, and why, but also helps to enable the physics to be applied in technology in the future. He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved.

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What do Forensic Scientists do?

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Credit: Wikimedia/USFWS/Ashland Forensics is the very science that makes investigative crime shows, podcasts, and books just so thrilling! The field draws from biology, chemistry, and physics in order to deliver justice for those who need it. If you’d like, you can even find programs that offer you a mix of legal studies and science.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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Pure mathematicians study mathematical concepts in their abstract forms, while applied mathematicians use maths to solve problems in the real world and are, therefore, an essential part of many other disciplines, such as the natural sciences, engineering and finance. WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

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(For about three centuries it seemed as if mathematical equations were the ultimate way to describe the natural world—but in the past few decades , and particularly poignantly with our recent Physics Project , it’s become clear that simple programs are in general a more powerful approach.) How does all this relate to technology?

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