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Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science), which study formal systems, governed by axioms and rules. There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines, as they do not rely on empirical evidence. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine. (Full article...)
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- ... that one of the first Polish science fiction novels featured a trip to the South Pole by airship, a decade before a similar airship was built?
- ... that the board game Cytosis was endorsed by the Journal of Cell Science?
- ... that Mary Clutter used her directorial position at the National Science Foundation to require scientific conferences to include women speakers when presenting research done by them?
- ... that according to science fiction essayist Jacques Van Herp, the novella The End of Illa caused the temporary decline of French science fiction?
- ... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?
- ... that Ana Štěrba-Böhm became the first Slovene woman with a doctorate in science, in 1911?
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- 5 June 2024 – Spaceflight records
- Roscosmos announces that Oleg Kononenko has become the first human to spend 1,000 days in space. (AP)
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- Chilean scientists begin assembling and installing the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, an astronomical observatory that houses the Simonyi Survey Telescope, the world's largest astronomy camera. (Reuters)
- 17 May 2024 –
- Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope discover the earliest known merging of black holes, 740 million years after the Big Bang. (AP)
- 15 May 2024 – Discoveries of exoplanets
- Scientists announce the discovery of SPECULOOS-3 b, an Earth-size exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star that has a similar size as Jupiter. (Space.com)
- 8 May 2024 –
- Researchers at Google DeepMind announce the development of AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them. (Time) (Nature)
- 17 April 2024 –
- Scientists announce that they have identified fossil remains of the Ichthyotitan, the largest marine reptile currently known, in the Westbury Formation in England. (NOS)