History of science, the development of science over time. Humankind has long observed regularities in nature, from the movements of the Sun and Moon during day and night to the …

Name - Onomastics, Etymology, Naming: The science that studies names in all their aspects is called onomastics (or onomatology—an obsolete word).

Oct 17, 2025 · The structural details of bacteria and blue-green algae, which are similar to each other in many respects but markedly different from both higher plants and animals, have been …

Nov 14, 2025 · Astronomy, science that encompasses the study of all extraterrestrial objects and phenomena. Since the late 19th century, astronomy has expanded to include astrophysics, the …

Science, in its mature form, developed only in the West. But it is instructive to survey the protoscience that appeared in other areas, especially in light of the fact that until quite recently …

Perhaps the most famous fictional example is in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962), in which L’Engle takes artistic license with the science of the tesseract, using it as a means of …

Nov 25, 2025 · In short, by the time of Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th century, a fairly broad substratum of physical science existed, largely empirical but not without theoretical …

Tanya Kelley is an adjunct professor of German and Spanish at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and History of Science.

Nov 21, 2025 · The study of both energy flow and nutrient cycling was stimulated by the development of new materials and techniques—radioisotope tracers, microcalorimetry, …

Dec 8, 2025 · The most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe is the big-bang theory, which proposes that the universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago in an …