We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of ...

No one scientific finding is final, yet students and scholars within the social sciences sometimes defer to scientific language to provide a sense of absolute certainty for their claims.

Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV. And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused. The field of quantum mechanics was ...

While the scientific method gives us a way to evaluate a hypothesis, a scientific process allows us to organize our minds to form these hypotheses, lay out a piece of code, organize a project, or ...

Too many companies make a profit by deceit. Here's why using the scientific method to understand data--and being totally transparent about how you do it--helps you build trust with your customers.

Researchers have examined 1.2 million criminal incidents and developed an innovative method to identify patterns in criminal trajectories. Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub have examined 1.2 ...

People hunting for Bigfoot use sophisticated techniques for collecting and validating evidence, drawing on scientific methods ...

Brian May has many strings to his guitar. The musician, who is still touring with his rock band Queen, is also an astrophysicist, specializing in 3D stereoscopic images of distant bodies. And to the ...

Steve Bunk's recent essay on curiosity and the scientific method 1 was both enlightening and thought-provoking. Perhaps we can gain further insight on this issue from an examination of the ...