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Anechoic chamber
Room designed to completely absorb reflections of sound or electromagnetic waves
Basic research
Scientific discovery and improvement of scientific knowledge
Blinded experiment
Experiment in which information about the test is masked to reduce bias
Branches of science
Subdivisions of science defined by their scope
Case study
Intensive analysis of an individual unit stressing developmental factors in relation to context
Cleanroom
Room which is used for industrial or research processes that do not tolerate dust
Complex system
System composed of many interacting components
Computational science
Field that uses computers and mathematical models to analyze and solve scientific problems
Cybernetics
Study of regulatory and purposive systems
DATA
Organization
Data analysis
A process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data
Data science
Field of study to extract knowledge from data
Data sharing
Practice of making data available to others
Environmental science
The integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems.
Experiment
Scientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis
Field research
Collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting
Fieldnotes
Notes recorded by researchers in the course of field research
Formal science
Branch of science
Fringe science
Inquiries far outside of mainstream science
Funding of science
Mechanisms of allocating financial resources to research
Laboratory
Facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
Laboratory glassware
Variety of equipment, traditionally made of glass, used for scientific experiments and other work in science, especially in chemistry and biology laboratories
Laboratory safety
Risks and prevention of laboratory accidents
Medical laboratory
Laboratory where tests are carried out on patients' or clients' or subjects' specimens to obtain information about the health status of the affected individuals to aid in diagnosis, treatment, research and prevention of disease
Natural environment
All living and non-living things occurring naturally, generally on Earth
Natural science
Branch of science about the natural world
Nature
Natural, physical, or material world and its phenomena
Observation
Active acquisition of information from a primary source
Peer review
Evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work
Qualitative Research (journal)
Academic journal
Quantitative research
All procedures for the numerical representation of empirical facts
Reproducibility
Agreement with previous measurements using the same methodology in the same context
Research
Systematic study undertaken to increase knowledge
Scholarly peer review
Subjecting an author's work or research to scrutiny
Science (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Scientific community
Network of interacting scientists
Scientific evidence
Evidence that either supports or counters a scientific theory
Scientific law
Statement based on repeated empirical observations that describes some natural phenomenon
Scientific method
Interplay between observation, experiment and theory in science
Scientific misconduct
Violation of codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in scientific research
Scientific modelling
Scientific activity that produces models
Scientific theory
Explanation of some aspect of the natural world which can be tested and verified
Scientist
Person who conducts scientific research
System
Interrelated entities that form a whole