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

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When was the last time you looked at a computer, TV, phone or tablet? He starts by considering some basic principles of physics – that the momentum and energy of a system are always conserved. The problem is that considering every possible effect that contributes to momentum or energy is complicated,” he explains.

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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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Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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The carbon energy from that sugar can be used to build an industrial biochemical that the first microbe would not be able to produce. Synthetic biologists use them like tiny workspaces for novel chemistry. (© Pathway from school to synthetic biologist Biomolecular science forms the knowledge foundation of synthetic biology.

Biology 73
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. How Did We Get Here?

Energy 90
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. And I spent much of the summer of 1972 writing my own (unseen by anyone else for 30+ years) Concise Directory of Physics that included a rather stiff page about energy, mentioning entropy—along with the heat death of the universe. How Did We Get Here?

Physics 96
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Urban farming for urban families

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The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Contact your local university and see if they offer agricultural science courses and any internship or work experience opportunities.