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2 days ago · Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as " a " rather than " the " father or mother of the field. Debate over who merits the title can be perennial.
2 days ago · The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation.
4 days ago · 1626 New Atlantis by Francis Bacon is published. It describes a utopian state where Bacon's scientific method is employed. 1638 Galileo's Discourse on Two New Sciences is published. 1641 Johannes Hevelius builds his Stellaeburg observatory in Danzig, Poland. 1642 Blaise Pascal invents a calculating machine.
1 day ago · Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A high school student explains her engineering project to a judge in Sacramento, California, in 2015. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ( STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and ...
3 days ago · Summary. Since the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, the development of space activities has provided a kind of evidence for the conduct of human affairs, to the point of neglecting to question these activities from an ethical point of view: only since the beginning of the 2000s has a real ethical interrogation within the space community (French Space Agency, International Space University ...
1 day ago · She did undergraduate work at Harvard in astrophysics and earned a PhD from the University of Arizona in Planetary Science, where she worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons. An expert on image processing and planetary surface processes, Cynthia now works on the Europa Clipper mission, which will launch in October 2024 to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa and its subsurface ocean.
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