To identify the essence of the Scientific Method, Strevens lays out a methodological precept he calls “the iron law of explanation.” Science’s “first commandment,” the iron law consists ...

Science deniers just don’t think: All hail the scientific method The scientific method's the best way for people to get smarter, precisely because theories get revised and improved ...

For 500 years scientists and philosophers have argued over how it ought to work, and these days many question whether it even makes sense to search for the scientific method — history suggests there ...

Welcome to the Love Lab. Psychologists say that the scientific method — observation, hypothesis, experimentation, analysis and adjustment — should be applied to dating to stop singles from ...

We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events, but science journalism plays an underappreciated role in the scientific process.

Claims that the “the science isn’t settled” with regard to climate change are symptomatic of a large body of ignorance about how science works. So what is the scientific method, and why do so many ...

Steven Weinberg’s new book ‘To Explain the World’ illustrates the difficulty of the development of modern science.

The scientific method---the use of experiments to observe and test hypotheses---may be under fire due to the decline effect. This decline effect dictates that experiments used to find the truth ...

If asked who gave birth to the modern scientific method, how might you respond? Isaac Newton, maybe? Galileo? Aristotle? A great many students of science history would probably respond, ...

IVF, or In Vitro Fertilization, is the scientific method which allows doctors to extract an egg and sperm from suitable donors, create an embryo by combining the two outside the womb, and then ...