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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

Published: While art and science are often separated in academia, there is a lot to be learnt by considering them together. I was fascinated by the physical processes that underlie information processing, so studied physics and computer science initially. I want to tackle seemingly fuzzy problems with rigorous science.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

I am proud to be training a new generation of students who are laser-focused on social justice. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.

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

Futurum

From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It is important to study maths to at least A-level/post 16-years-old.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. So, for example, in the late 1700s the French balloonist Jacques Charles (1746–1823) noted the linear increase of volume of a gas with temperature.

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