If you’d like to pursue being a researcher or scientist by profession, it’s helpful to understand the best way to develop hypotheses and test them to determine results. And even if you don’t decide to ...

What Is the Scientific Method? The scientific method is a systematic way of conducting experiments or studies so that you can explore the things you observe in the world and answer questions about ...

We take science seriously at The Conversation and we work hard to report it accurately. This series of five posts is adapted from an internal presentation on how to understand and edit science by our ...

The scientific method can’t save us — because it doesn’t exist. Claims on television and Twitter notwithstanding, there is no such thing as “the scientific method,” no single set of steps or ...

In a post published last week, Adam Frank argued for the importance of public facts, and of science as a method for ascertaining them. He emphasized the role of agreement in establishing public facts, ...