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J. Mimouni
Physics has a bad press: it is seen by a majority of people as a boring discipline ever since their High School days. There is no glamour to it, just toil and pain, and for many who engaged in it, the end sight is often unemployment. Could it be that physicists don't know how to communicate what their discipline…
Jon R Lorsch, Lawrence A Tabak, Monica M Bertagnolli
Three senior figures at the US National Institutes of Health explain why the agency remains committed to supporting basic science and research.
Jorge Almeida
the Here and Now: A Scientific Conundrum Authors: ['Jorge Almeida'] The psychological sciences are suffering from the primacy of the “here and now” and from a radical utilitarian view of science-this is certainly true in less affluent countries around the world. Portugal is a particular case study, as both psychology…
Jared A. Danielson, Rebecca G. Burzette, Misty R. Bailey, Linda M. Berent + 6 more
'Linda M. Berent' 'Heather Case' 'Anita Casey-Reed' 'John Dascanio' 'Richard A. Feinberg' 'Tamara S. Hancock' 'Claudia A. Kirk'] Medical sciences education emphasizes basic science learning as a prerequisite to clinical learning. Studies exploring relationships between achievement in the basic sciences and subsequent…
Bishal Pradhan, Prerana Singh Rokaha, Ashmina Lama
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery is a roller coaster journey that is educational yet emotional. Because of how the context and responsibilities change throughout time, learning is exciting. Nevertheless, the exposure to basic science during this course teaches us to be diligent, committed, and…
Michael S Lauer
An analysis of over 2.2 million NIH-funded research papers published between 1990 and 2024 reveals that there have been marked declines in the relative and absolute numbers of basic-science oriented publications. In 1990, nearly 60% of NIH-funded publications reported on basic science, with that proportion declining to…
Xia, Kay T., Anderson, Thayer L. + 2 more
The American scientific community is reeling from funding cuts and policy directives that will debilitate scientific research and education. The underlying hostilities fueling these attacks have intensified in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic increased suspicion of scientific experts and the institutional embrace…
Alexander Krauss
Science and knowledge are studied by researchers across many disciplines, examining how they are developed, what their current boundaries are and how we can advance them. By integrating evidence across disparate disciplines, the holistic field of science of science can address these foundational questions. This field…
Xia, Kay T., Anderson, Thayer L. + 2 more
The American scientific community is reeling from funding cuts and policy directives that will debilitate scientific research and education. The underlying hostilities fueling these attacks have intensified in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic increased suspicion of scientific experts and the institutional embrace…
Eaindra Yee, Murphi T. Williams, Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran
Metals enable numerous physiological processes ranging from respiration to nitrogen fixation. However, the role of metals in biology and biocatalysis is not appreciated by the general public. This lack of knowledge around biological metals can lead to misinformation, especially regarding vaccines and health products.…
Renee Dale, Stewart Craig
The development of mathematical and quantitative skills is increasingly critical for biology students. Literacy in coding, statistics, and mathematical modeling enables students to engage in systems-thinking and the analysis of large data sets. Here we present a flexible tool illustrating concepts in mathematical…
Yousef Bisabr
We argue that most advances in science and technology during the past and the present centuries rely on modern physics concepts developed in the early 20th century. The reliance is so profound that any improvement of literacy of science and technology falters in the absence of those concepts in physics education.…
Alexander Krauss, Mo Wang
Scientific, medical, and technological knowledge has transformed our world, but we still poorly understand the nature of scientific methodology. Science textbooks, science dictionaries, and science institutions often state that scientists follow, and should follow, the universal scientific method of testing hypotheses…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
Taha Sochi
This is the first of a series of papers that we intend to publish about the epistemology of fundamental physics in its current state. One of the main objectives of these papers is to improve our understanding of fundamental physics (and modern physics in particular) from an epistemological and interpretative…
Tom Froese, Natalya Weber, Ivan Shpurov, Takashi Ikegami
The theory of autopoiesis has been influential in many areas of theoretical biology, especially in the fields of artificial life and origins of life. However, it has not managed to productively connect with mainstream biology, partly for theoretical reasons, but arguably mainly because deriving specific working…
Aneequa Sundus, Furkan Kurtoglu, Kali Konstantinopoulos, Mary Chen + 3 more
Cell-based tissue simulations require not only the ability to write new code in a simulation framework, but also an understanding of underlying mathematical models and parameters for each behavior of an agent. This entails a steep learning curve for interdisciplinary researchers joining computational biology research.…
V. L. Kalmykov, L. V. Kalmykov
Mathematical black box models, which hide the structure and behavior of the subsystems, currently dominate science. Errors and paradoxes, such as the biodiversity paradox and the limiting similarity hypothesis, often arise from subjective interpretations of these hidden mechanisms. To address these problems, we have…
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Chemistry curricula often separate “wet” experimental work from “dry” computation, yet modern discovery increasingly demands both. This Perspective offers an instructor-ready roadmap to train “hybrid chemists” within existing courses. We distill recent advances in machine learning, automation, and real-time analytics…
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Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly powerful and fast-growing analytical technique across diverse disciplines, from materials science and chemistry to biology and medicine, thanks to advances in Raman instrumentation and greatly supported by the flourishing of chemometrics and artificial intelligence (AI). However…
P. J. E. Peebles
Physicists follow operating procedures that have been close enough to standard for long enough to constitute a working philosophy. I do not have in mind the methods of discovery of specific physical theories and the tests that establish some as canonical physics, both of which which have evolved a lot, but rather our…