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Best Academic Research Tools for Researchers and Educators

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From reading the literature to writing up the first draft of your paper, engaging in academic research means that you are in an ongoing process of learning and growth. To learn more about these tools check out this post titled best 12 tools to organize citations and references.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

It’s likely that some of what you learn about the brain in school will be outdated by the time you do research. If you find an area of research that interests you, try to reach out to the scientists that study it to learn more!” I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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Our team includes social science and humanities researchers who look at the policies and implications of synthetic biology,” says Ian. Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology. Learn more. Its website also points towards opportunities for students.

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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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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Whilst taking part in research projects, they will have had to develop software and learn about different software engineering techniques. Sarah’s research.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And so it was that I set about running programs that I later learned were a simplified version of what had been called “cellular automata” before. Nothing I’ve learned in these 36 years has dulled the strength and beauty of rule 30 and those early discoveries about complexity. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by now there are endless examples of machine learning systems that do well at reproducing human judgement in lots of domains. Could we “learn how to make sense of it”? With both natural language and computational language one’s basically “directly saying what one wants”. But without that framework they don’t make sense.

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Urban farming for urban families

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At 15th Street Farm in Florida, USA, Emmanuel Roux and Professor David Himmelgreen run an education project to help local families learn about their local food systems and make healthier food choices. What do students learn? The outdoor learning results in greater student engagement and impacts human and environmental wellness.