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 ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...

“One Guinness, please!” a customer says to a barkeep, who flips a branded pint glass and catches it under the tap. The barkeep begins a multistep pour process lasting precisely 119.5 seconds, which, ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...