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Scientific method

Book tells story ‘most famous man most of us have never heard of’

Many New Yorkers may not know David Hosack’s name, but they wouldn’t recognize their city without the public institutions he founded or influenced.

The “Journal of Visualized Experiments,” or JOVE, is used to ensure that experiments are able to be reproduced by other scientists.

This new scientific journal is kind of like YouTube, but without the cats

Science

Religion, science and public policy

Lifestyle & Belief

Big Advances in Testing Chemicals

The World

New report questions value of single-sex schooling

Development & Education
The World

Testing Pesticides on Peopl

Pesticides — those poisons designed to kill bugs, weeds, and other forms of life that many people find undesirable — are increasingly being tested directly on human beings. Until recently, most of the testing was on laboratory animals. This upsurge in experiments on humans has prompted a review panel at the U S Environmental Protection […]

The World

What happens when you die? UK researchers study near-death experiences

Environment

We may know a lot about what happens to the body when we die, but what about the mind? Researchers are trying to find out, carrying out the world’s largest scientific study in near-death experiences.