Do an experiment, record its outcome faithfully and objectively and make that record available for doubters. This is the basis of the modern scientific method. It blossomed in the 17th century ...

A prediction can be improved by adding the scientific reasoning behind the ... it is a set distance from the light source. Repeat the experiment with different sized PV cells.

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we need to ensure that it doesn’t kill us off.

Now after so many years we have to shamefully admit that in this age of religious ostentation, hypocrisy, superstition and ...

Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations—biological tissue and Beethoven's ...

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“Science is a method for deciding ... that they don’t hold up. Scientific results are always provisional, susceptible to being overturned by some future experiment or observation.

On July 23, 1924, the editor of Scientific American, O.D. Munn, and six members of a scientific investigative committee ...

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