The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and ...

The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and collaborators critically examined the newly proposed "Protura-sister" ...

According to the team, it's plausible that such a civilization, perhaps born long before our time, could choose to aestivate (hibernate during hotter times, rather than like bears in winter) given how ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

Over the past few years, however, data and drugs associated with the hypothesis have been mired in various controversies relating to data integrity, regulatory approval, and drug safety.

So far, so not science. However, in 2018 two University of Cambridge scientists named their paper The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the ...