The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

A decade ago, the Kitzmiller versus Dover Area School District trial determined that the school-board-ordered teaching of Intelligent Design did not belong in the science classroom. The federal court ...

The efficient market hypothesis theory states that the market prices securities fairly and efficiently, and investors are unable to outperform the market consistently. Moreover, EMH theory proposes ...

Last summer, Michael Imperiale, a University of Michigan virologist and 10-year member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, published an essay on the need to “rethink” some basic ...

Hypothesis. Theory. Law. These scientific words get bandied about regularly, yet the general public usually gets their meaning wrong. Now, one scientist is arguing that people should do away with ...

The first person infected with COVID-19 could have caught the virus from a bat while working at the controversial Wuhan virology lab — but Chinese officials pressured the World Health Organization to ...

I am not sure if the fault lies with scientists, linguists or love. Let's pretend, for the moment, that it doesn't lie with NPR and the news media. Matt Kirby of Kansas City, MO, called to complain ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There’s a popular theory called the “Lehman Sisters Hypothesis” that says well known bank failures (like the Lehman Brothers collapse) ...