Of those who responded, 113 were from the physical sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics, 45.6%) and 122 from the biological sciences (for example, zoology, botany, human sciences, medicine, 49.2%).
In biological sciences, for example, the exceptional pace of recent advances in technology for DNA and genome sequencing has created a demand for computationally able researchers, to analyse the large amounts of data produced.
For example, courses such as "Topics in biological sciences for primary science teaching" aimed at increasing the knowledge in biology of primary school science teachers.
Fractional differential equations arise in many fields, such as physics, mechanics, chemistry, engineering and biological sciences; see, for example, [11 13].
We are told that we shall " harness the biological sciences for the benefit of the Nation".
Microscopy is critical in the biological sciences for its ability to visualize biological samples at the cellular level.
Let alone the advancements to biological science for its own sake.
But there are pragmatic reasons, too: students should also understand evolution in order to be informed consumers, workers, and citizens in a world in which the biological sciences are increasingly important for example, in agriculture, biotechnology, climate change, genomics, and medicine.1.1
Although biological metaphors have long influenced computer science (for example, in the form of neural nets), innovations in biology have more recently inspired creative, interdisciplinary approaches to conceptualizing, representing, simulating and analyzing social, economic and cultural trends.
For example, biological sciences has more than a thousand majors.
Understanding and predicting impacts of climate change on living systems is a core focus of much research in biological and environmental sciences (see for example Walther et al. 2002; Parmesan 2006; Peñuelas et al. 2013).
