What Is the Scientific Method? The scientific method is a systematic way of conducting experiments or studies so that you can explore the things you observe in the world and answer questions about ...

If you’d like to pursue being a researcher or scientist by profession, it’s helpful to understand the best way to develop hypotheses and test them to determine results. And even if you don’t decide to ...

In the Cutter Lecture for 1959 published elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, Dr. Dorn accepts the thesis propounded by A. Bradford Hill from the same forum six years ago 1 that the observation of ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal with ...

Experimentation is a vital part of the scientific method. Most problems in science require observation of the system at work and experimentation to elucidate information about how the system works. In ...

The development of science left behind various experiments that could have furthered the field in a variety of domains. A recent collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University ...

We take science seriously at The Conversation and we work hard to report it accurately. This series of five posts is adapted from an internal presentation on how to understand and edit science by our ...

Scientists at CERN have discovered an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond our understanding of how the building blocks of matter interact. Today the NA62 ...

Nuclear physicists analyzed data for a demonstration experiment in France that has achieved record precision for a specialized detector material. Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department ...