Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

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 ...

A hypothesis is an idea about how something works that can be tested using experiments. A prediction says what will happen in an experiment if the hypothesis is correct. Presenter 1: We are going to ...

What would you think if we said that the language we speak not only allows us to communicate but also determines how we perceive reality? This may seem like an exaggeration, but the Sapir-Whorf ...

Leading environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia hypothesis James Lovelock has died on his 103rd birthday. The climate scientist died at home on Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, his family ...

SEATTLE — What is the "hygiene hypothesis" and does it have any legs among medical circles right now? HealthLink talked with a local physician about it to explain. The hygiene hypothesis is a theory ...

Now that the James Webb Telescope is operational and churning out breathtaking images sure to give us a whole new perspective on our universe, the inevitable question of "are we alone in the universe?