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Experiment: is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. There also exists natural experimental studies.
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SEP 11, 2016Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 09, 2016Microbiology
I couldn’t pass up the chance to write about “Frackibacter”. Candidatus Frackibacter is a potentially ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 09, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Chinese herbal medicines have been used to treat various ailments for centuries. Some appear to be completely bogus (sna ...SEP 09, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Steroids that could help women get pregnant may, ironically, be responsible for miscarriage, preterm birth, and birth de ...SEP 08, 2016Space & Astronomy
Late last month, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams set a new cumulative space time record for an American astronaut after hav ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 08, 2016Genetics & Genomics
A new study with rats suggests the genetic roots of alcoholism are incredibly complex. Researchers identified 930 genes ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 07, 2016Cardiology
Nearly one-third of the American adult population has high blood pressure, or hypertension. Various classes of antihyper ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 07, 2016Videos
In this video, Physics Girl Dianna Cowern sees a phenomenon in an experiment and just has to find out why it happens. A ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 06, 2016Videos
Marijuana has now been legalized in half of the states and in the District of Columbia. With this unprecedented legaliza ...SEP 06, 2016Health & Medicine
Authors of the new paper include The Scripps Research Institute’s Olivier George (left) and Giordano de Guglielmo. ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)SEP 06, 2016Neuroscience
Image Credit: iStockphoto No matter how you did in high school science, you’re a master of the laws of physics, ab ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 06, 2016Cardiology
Having sex frequently—and enjoying it—may put older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovas ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
Earlier this year, Stephen Hawking teamed up with billionaire Yuri Milner to propose a new kind of revolutionary space t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 02, 2016Cancer
Vitamins are once again in the spotlight this week. This time, researchers at Stanford University found a link between v ...SEP 02, 2016Cardiology
Hydrogen sulfide gas, commonly referred to “rotten egg gas,” may be stinky, but researchers are finding that ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 01, 2016Cardiology
Image Credit: iStockphoto People who experience atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart arrhythmia, may also have a smaller br ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 01, 2016Cardiology
A series of genetic disorders, some rare and some common, are connected to a heart condition that can cause sudden cardi ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 31, 2016Videos
Runners often experience a condition known as "runner's diarrhea," which is when the person engaging in the activity exp ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 31, 2016Cancer
Cancer cells know when they’re being attacked. And one of their best counterattack strategies is to pump the chemo ...AUG 31, 2016Earth & The Environment
Six scientists spent 365 days in a geodesic dome set in a Mars-like environment 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea leve ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 30, 2016Videos
Our bodies, our world, the air we breathe and the ground we walk on are all made up of matter. Sub atomic particles, suc ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 29, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that when proteins are made in the cell, a messenger RNA molecule made using DNA as a temp ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 29, 2016Plants & Animals
When your dog listens to you and makes you proud, what do you do? Do you give them a dog biscuit, or do you scoop them u ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A team of researchers from UC Santa Cruz, led by Michael Nayak, have been studying the strange chain of craters that app
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2016
Microbiology
I couldn’t pass up the chance to write about “Frackibacter”. Candidatus Frackibacter is a potentially
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 09, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Chinese herbal medicines have been used to treat various ailments for centuries. Some appear to be completely bogus (sna
...
SEP 09, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Steroids that could help women get pregnant may, ironically, be responsible for miscarriage, preterm birth, and birth de
...
SEP 08, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Late last month, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams set a new cumulative space time record for an American astronaut after hav
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 08, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
A new study with rats suggests the genetic roots of alcoholism are incredibly complex. Researchers identified 930 genes
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 07, 2016
Cardiology
Nearly one-third of the American adult population has high blood pressure, or hypertension. Various classes of antihyper
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 07, 2016
Videos
In this video, Physics Girl Dianna Cowern sees a phenomenon in an experiment and just has to find out why it happens. A
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 06, 2016
Videos
Marijuana has now been legalized in half of the states and in the District of Columbia. With this unprecedented legaliza
...
SEP 06, 2016
Health & Medicine
Authors of the new paper include The Scripps Research Institute’s Olivier George (left) and Giordano de Guglielmo.
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 06, 2016
Neuroscience
Image Credit: iStockphoto No matter how you did in high school science, you’re a master of the laws of physics, ab
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 06, 2016
Cardiology
Having sex frequently—and enjoying it—may put older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovas
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earlier this year, Stephen Hawking teamed up with billionaire Yuri Milner to propose a new kind of revolutionary space t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2016
Cancer
Vitamins are once again in the spotlight this week. This time, researchers at Stanford University found a link between v
...
SEP 02, 2016
Cardiology
Hydrogen sulfide gas, commonly referred to “rotten egg gas,” may be stinky, but researchers are finding that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 01, 2016
Cardiology
Image Credit: iStockphoto People who experience atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart arrhythmia, may also have a smaller br
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 01, 2016
Cardiology
A series of genetic disorders, some rare and some common, are connected to a heart condition that can cause sudden cardi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 31, 2016
Videos
Runners often experience a condition known as "runner's diarrhea," which is when the person engaging in the activity exp
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 31, 2016
Cancer
Cancer cells know when they’re being attacked. And one of their best counterattack strategies is to pump the chemo
...
AUG 31, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Six scientists spent 365 days in a geodesic dome set in a Mars-like environment 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) above sea leve
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 30, 2016
Videos
Our bodies, our world, the air we breathe and the ground we walk on are all made up of matter. Sub atomic particles, suc
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that when proteins are made in the cell, a messenger RNA molecule made using DNA as a temp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
When your dog listens to you and makes you proud, what do you do? Do you give them a dog biscuit, or do you scoop them u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard