This book emphasizes the advantages of being explicit about these thought processes and aims to help those undertaking ecological research to develop a critical attitude to approaching a scientific ..

Scientists are using samples from subsistence-harvested bearded seals to establish kin relationships (parent-offspring, ...

The bottom line is that modern pollsters are trying to correct for known forms of possible bias in their samples by making subjective adjustments to the data. If their judgments are correct, then ...

The group neglected to fully document key aspects of the project ahead of running the experiments, one of the practices the study was looking to test.

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The varied methods of measuring parenting styles were used because ... “What we think might be going on is that our sample ...

In a paper published this week in Nature ... He says he saw this project as an opportunity to simultaneously contribute ...

A decade-long effort has resulted in a new, rapid genomic test to diagnose rare infectious diseases in the brain and lungs.

A Spanish documentary has made history-changing claims, but the science behind its conclusions remains unclear.

Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes fireflies flicker and ...

By using the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, this method can reveal a sample's chemical composition ...

Researchers from Madrid explain a phenomenon that allows the direction of light emission to be controlled at the atomic scale ...