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10 hours ago · Robert Hooke FRS ( / hʊk /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5] He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound microscope that ...
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10 hours ago · Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. These were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities. [1]
1 day ago · Food science. Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology . Food science brings together multiple scientific disciplines. [1]
10 hours ago · Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion. George Macdonald, p. 603.
10 hours ago · Graphene. Graphene is an atomic-scale hexagonal lattice made of carbon atoms. Graphene ( / ˈɡræfiːn / [1]) is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice [2] [3] nanostructure. [4] The name is derived from "graphite" and the suffix -ene, reflecting the fact that the graphite allotrope of ...
10 hours ago · Introduction Defining science Main article: Demarcation problem In formulating 'the problem of induction', David Hume devised one of the most pervasive puzzles in the philosophy of science. Karl Popper in the 1980s. Popper is credited with formulating 'the demarcation problem', which considers the question of how we distinguish between science and pseudoscience. Distinguishing between science ...
10 hours ago · Physicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president Lawrence Summers after his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in science and engineering, said, "I just want to see a whole bunch more women enter the field so these issues don't have to come up anymore."
