(Nanowerk News) Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their ...

A new study of the Hadza population in Tanzania, forthcoming in the April 2006 issue of Current Anthropology, explores the role of hunting in human evolution. Researchers have long tried to locate the ...

Five years after the start of the pandemic, a group of researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is one step ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the ...

Most scientific studies that get published have “positive results,” meaning that the study proved its hypothesis. Say you hypothesize that a honeybee will favor one flower over another, and your ...

In the long-running debate over just what causes Alzheimer’s disease, one side looks to have scored a victory with new results with an in-development drug. But there’s enough variation in the data to ...

Guess what? There’s another lead-crime study out! You can feel the excitement, can’t you? But this time there’s a twist: it’s a prospective study of data from Dunedin, New Zealand’s fourth-largest ...

Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman takes the long view of physical activity. His name has been connected to running and human evolution ever since his seminal Nature study “Endurance running and ...

Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials. Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental ...