To conduct an experiment, scientists follow the scientific method, a series of five steps that help organize their progress: plan, hypothesize, research, experiment, and conclusion. Kara Fan’s journey ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool. A key facet of scientific methodology is reproducibility. Essentially, good science should be easily ...

As a master's student at Johns Hopkins, Taylor Krause, A&S '21 (MS), was so taken with the promise of hydrogen as a major player in clean energy technology that she later had an image of the molecule ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Aleksei Borisyuk not only researches microelectronic materials but is also developing an original approach to modifying cells using nanoparticles. This method could become a significant addition to ...