Planetary science

1) What does it mean to write up a scientific research article? [2] Scientific research articles provide a way for scientists to contact other scientists about the results of their research. A standard format is used for these articles, wherein the author presents the research in a neat, logical manner. 2) Explain the concept of peer-reviewed (in the context of scientific research)? [2] Peer review is used by publishers to help ensure that the scientific record is good. The peer-reviewed…

Technology has altered our world and continues to grow as our world grows. Society has become dependent on technology and technology changes to adapt to people’s needs and desires every day. Technology has made our lives much simpler. We have seen technological advances in health care, business, education, and even sports. Technology has changed the way we experience sports in different ways. The use of apps to stream live games, the use of replays, and the use of fitness technologies are all…

Alhacen. Ibn al-Haytham began to receive science, during that period he spent in Basra, where he read many of the books of the Islamic faith and scientific books. That era was booming in various sciences of mathematics and astronomy, medicine, etc., there are embarked on the study of engineering and optics and read books of his predecessors from Greece scholars and scientist Andalusian Zahrawi and others in this area, he wrote several letters about science and contributed to the development of…

Animals have been used in laboratories across the globe for centuries. Whether it has been to test new drugs, plants, and multiple synthetic products, animals have always been the go-to ‘Guineapigs’ for testing new products and medications. However it was only recently that the pain and suffering that the animals in these laboratories face was made common knowledge. Thousands upon thousands of animals around the world are forced to inhale deadly toxins, swallow pills, have toxic liquids inserted…

During the 18th century, a group of thinkers believed they could explain everything through science. This period was called the enlightenment but shortly after, a group decided that nature was too powerful and complex to understand. This way of thinking is called Romanticism. Romantics believe that nature and God are superior to man and if humans even try to understand life or alter it, their studies will end up horribly. Many Romantic artists and writers depict nature as an unstoppable force…

Based on Descartes, there are two types of admiration: “”sudden surprise,” i.e., an unexpected feeling caused by the perception of some new or unknown object; on the other hand, it can mean “veneration” or “regard” with respect to an unusual, rare, and extraordinary object.” While first meaning comes and goes almost at the same time, the second type can become “constant and durable.” Aristotle described admiration as wonder and said that “[it] is the beginning of the philosophical inquiry…

a scientific theory that everything in the world came from one single origin and follows a blueprint of order in a process called natural selection. Evolution by natural selection is one of the unsurpassed authenticated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific studies, including developmental biology, geology, genetics and paleontology. Created by Charles Darwin who wrote The Origin of Species (1859) to define his theory of Evolution. It was…

For those of you out there who’ve always thought that you had a sixth sense, congratulations, it turns out you were right all along...sort of. In a new paper published in Chemical Senses, Richard D. Mattes, a professor of nutritional science at Purdue University makes an argument that not only do human beings have tastes for sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami, they also have the ability to taste pure fat. Not that Mattes calls its fat of course, he prefers to call it oleogustus. While…

Introduction Perhaps the most controversial principle of biology, this is due to many reasons ranging from the ignorance of the population to religious beliefs. I have chosen this principle as I wish to portray an unbiased look at this bold claim made by scientists where I present the facts in a scientific manner. So is there really any evidence that claim is true? Of course, we cannot tackle the entire tree of life at once, so instead, we’ll focus most of our attention on one small but…

Exploring the Logic of Experimental Design 1. Jackson even-numbered Chapter Exercises (p. 244) #2. What possible confounds can you identify in this study? There are three confounds in the health magazine depression study that might have impacted the study and the observed findings. First, there does not appear to be a control group. The study was for nine months long, mortality within the length of the study could have an effect. To conduct this kind of study, however, requires many more…