I'm not surprised when I begin to read Tim Minchin's latest book that it's not just simply words on a page. It's the written ...

Key Points The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test is a non-parametric means of comparing data between two sets. It operates as a useful ...

After spending some time learning how to do his homework, Shaq eventually stopped chasing get-rich-quick schemes and saw ...

Welcome to the Love Lab. Psychologists say that the scientific method — observation, hypothesis, experimentation, analysis and adjustment — should be applied to dating to stop singles from repeating ...

No one has a monopoly on science. And believing in science isn’t the same as being scientific. Any racer, from karts to dirt ...

Today, life exists in the form of cells, which are pockets that contain DNA, RNA, proteins, and other substances. However, when life first appeared over four billion years ago, cells were simpler.

The findings cast doubt on a long-held theory in the field of archaeology. Known as the Kurgan hypothesis, it argues that humans began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium BCE. The ...

The Hoyle–Narlikar variable mass hypothesis provides a framework in which quasars are ejected from galactic nuclei, starting with low mass and high redshift, extracting energy from the ...

An astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory has developed a hypothesis to explain the unique shape and terrain of Mars. He suggests both are due to a long-lost moon. Michael Efroimsky has ...

Twin Deficit Hypothesis Some economists believe a large budget deficit is correlated to a large current account deficit. This macroeconomic theory is known as the twin deficit hypothesis.