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physical science

any of the sciences concerned with nonliving matter, energy, and the physical properties of the universe, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology
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Engineering and the physical sciences contribute hundreds of billions of pounds to the UK economy each year, but women and also people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ and disabled people remain poorly represented across these sectors.
In total the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will fund more than 70 new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), spread across 24 UK universities.
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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has ranked Newcastle among its top 12 most strongly funded universities in the UK after it scooped pounds 57.2m in the last three years.
A team at Queen's University Belfast, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a UK government agency, has developed a prototype computer game to help improve decision making skills, the university revealed yesterday.
Poor response to BSc physical sciences forces top colleges to slash cut- offs
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The two methods constitute the basis of a variety of numerical techniques for solving a range of problems in the physical sciences and applied mathematics, says Vastya, but explanations of them are scattered hither and yon, and tend to focus on their mathematical niceties and neglect their link with the physical phenomenon that they can actually help analyze.
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