Birds, bees, bears, dragonflies, salamanders, hemlocks, fungi. Scientific research in Great Smoky Mountains National Park addresses a wide swath of subjects. From Tennessee, North Carolina, South ...

No one scientific finding is final, yet students and scholars within the social sciences sometimes defer to scientific language to provide a sense of absolute certainty for their claims.

Is it a silent messenger from a distant civilisation or merely a frozen wanderer caught in the Sun's gravity? The arrival of a new interstellar visitor has triggered a scientific standoff that feels ...

Bigfoot remains firmly in the realm of cryptozoology, along with the likes of the Loch Ness monster. However, its pursuers ...

In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

This article examines three locations where entomologists engage in the experimental observation of mosquitoes: the insectary, the semifield station, and the outdoors. We approach each of these ...

Donald Trump's new "Genesis Mission" initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a ...

As many as 23,000 UK deaths could have been avoided if the first lockdown had happened a week earlier, according to the findings of the Covid-19 Inquiry. The government’s response to the deadly virus ...

Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 25, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 79-96 (18 pages) This study examines how an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning creates teachable moments that can ...