Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research.

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In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

His management theory, published in the 1911 book “The Principles of Scientific Management,” focused on simplifying jobs to increase efficiency. Although many management theories have come and gone ...

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Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a deep scientific enigma. China has emerged as a science powerhouse in ...

This is one of those examples where the expectations are that you’re going to find out about more complexity and nuance about mechanisms that we already know about. But sometimes surprises ...

AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think The findings emerged from a study that aimed to quantify the use and potential benefits of AI in scientific research. But the report, published last ...

David Baker receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, FNR Luxembourg, and the Qatar Nation Research Fund. Justin J.W. Powell has ...

For example, the tense may change between the methods section ... It has been debated whether one should use active or passive voice. The scientific journal Nature states that one should use active ...

A new method for determining causality gives scientists a more holistic view of the causal role that contributing factors play within just about any system.

Calculations of charge distribution in mesons provide benchmark for experimental measurements and validate widely used 'factorization' method for imaging the building blocks of matter.