Science is our most potent invention because it has given us a method to keep reinventing it. All our collective knowledge and expertise (that’s science) began with relatively simple arrangements of ...

We don't really know what the scientific method is. But science is even more than that. If one asks a scientist the question “what is science?”, the answer will almost surely be that science ...

This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, scientists around the world are working hard trying to devise a vaccine.

Learning is more effective when retrieval is varied and spaced over time, not repetitive. Variety strengthens memory pathways ...

One of the definitions of learn in Webster’s dictionary is memorize, and too often science education is no more than the memorization of facts about science, where learning is evaluated by repeating ...

Sometimes we build to innovate, and sometimes we build just to have the satisfaction of saying we made it ourselves. Yet there is another reason to construct something ourselves: To learn, just as ...

Carlos Finlay, a physician and scientific investigator in Havana, worked with the commission, which also included George Sternberg. After several months studying the disease in Cuba and in South ...

This is the basis of the modern scientific method. It blossomed in the 17th century, when a new breed of thinkers took the view that scientific knowledge can only come from first-hand observation.