All scientific constructs or so-called theories are constructs of the mind. In that sense, we accept them just in terms of whatever evidence we can gather in their favor or against them.

Both Christian and Jewish people regard Moses’ parting the Red Sea as one of the most impressive miracles of God — or is it?

In a study published in Nature Communications, physicists at the University of Southampton tested and proved a 50-year-old ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific ...

In the field of the empirical sciences, more particularly, he constructs hypotheses, or systems of theories, and tests them against experience by observation and experiment. I suggest that it is the ...

What has baffled me is how many people believe that and how they shove away centuries of scientific research. What I also find fascinating is, for instance, a hollow earth conspiracy theory was ...

A scientific gentleman, in a recent conversation, broached to us a theory of taste and smell, which, so far as taste is concerned, is, we think, new. A similar theory in regard to smell has been ...

The general belief ot men respecting the cause of earthquakes, is the igneous theory; in other words, they believe the centre of the earth is a molten mass, and that it is some times agitated ...

Scientists across the world form a scientific community. In school, your peer group are other students of your age. For scientists, their peers are other scientists, usually in the same area of ...

For more than a century, oceanographers have relied on the Ekman theory to explain how surface currents behave under the ...