Search results

which are particularly unusual or of distinctive importance. In scientific usage, a phenomenon is any event that is observable, including the use of instrumentation...

perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science. The phenomenon originated in a photograph of a dress...

a hypothetical and medically unrecognized condition. Unlike the scientific phenomenon of increased intestinal permeability ("leaky gut"), claims for the...

considers ESP to be pseudoscience. The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a scientific phenomenon. Skeptics have pointed out that...

audiences—suggest that Egyptian curses are primarily a cultural, not scientific, phenomenon. There are occasional instances of genuine ancient curses appearing...

A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight...

observed phenomenon described, or quantitative if a numerical value is attached to the observed phenomenon by counting or measuring. The scientific method...

claims this phenomenon to be largely invisible to members of the group. Comparably, following the field research in an academic scientific laboratory by...

phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific...

The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date...

first documented disputes over the reproducibility of a particular scientific phenomenon. In the 1660s, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens built his...

anthropologists that human races are a sociopolitical phenomenon rather than a biological one. The term scientific racism is generally used pejoratively when applied...

1794) was a German physician and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost...

intuition about the entity, phenomenon, or process being represented. Such computer models are in silico. Other types of scientific models are in vivo (living...

quantum jump in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A quantum jump is a scientific phenomenon, a transition between quantum states. Quantum jump may also refer...

relaxed. [citation needed] Research into the phenomenon remains inconclusive, with no definitive scientific explanation for why some individuals experience...

object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified...

The dawn phenomenon, sometimes called the dawn effect, is an observed increase in blood sugar (glucose) levels that takes place in the early-morning, often...

speed of light. Scientific theories are testable and make verifiable predictions. They describe the causes of a particular natural phenomenon and are used...

death of musicians at that age has been refuted by scientific research, it remains a cultural phenomenon, with many celebrities who die at 27 noted for their...