Scientists finish a 53-year-old classic experiment on the origins of life

Sometimes an article is so well written that you can do nothing to better it.  Ed Yong is the type of writer to consistently put out articles of that quality-level. And so all I can do is send you to his blog, for you to read for yourself. It concerns the Urey experiment on possible [...]

Theories & Laws

A scientific law explains what happens, for example Newton’s Laws of Motion describe objects at motion. A scientific theory explains how or why something happens, for example the Big Bang Theory explains how the universe was created.

Spontaneous Generation: A Brief History Of Disproving It.

Louis Pasteur built upon the scientists’ work that came before him and proved that life could only come from other life.

Experiments

A properly designed experiment consists of a control group and a variable group.

What Is Science?

The one thing that separates science from other fields of study is the scientific process, frequently called the scientific method.