Futurum

MAY 9, 2023

At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA, Dr Wei Zhang , a professor of food science, is focusing on improving food safety for everyone. Leafy green vegetables are a high priority for food safety and are an especially problematic food group for three reasons. 420,000 of those people die. Thirdly, Salmonella and E.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.” Pathway from school to bushfire risk analysis • At school and post-16, take maths alongside other science subjects like biology and chemistry.

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Futurum

MARCH 21, 2023

The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says. How to engineer a microbe Synthetic biology makes use of the rapidly progressing science of genetic engineering, which involves changing an organism’s genes so that it will express different proteins.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. But it also led him to the idea that the universe must be a giant cellular automaton—whose program he could invent. A long and colorful story. I’d politely ask for details.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Back then I definitely hadn’t internalized it, but I think what was so exciting that day was that I got a first taste of the idea that one didn’t have to be told how the world works; one could just figure it out: I didn’t yet understand quite a bit of the math in the book. It wasn’t like anything I’d seen before.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this for 35 years, building a taller and taller tower of ideas and technology that allow us to reach ever further. In case one ever doubted that graphs are important, our Wolfram Physics Project has made it pretty clear over the past year that at the lowest level physics is all about graphs.

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