3. What Is a Scientific Fact? 4. What Does Scientific Argumentation Look Like? 5. Knowing How and Knowing That 6. The Clinical Medical Paradigm 7. Placebo and Nocebo Phenomena 8. Pluralism and Medical Science 9. Medicine and Ethics 10. Medical Research Ethics 11. Taxonomy, Partonom...
But is Kepler 37-b really a planet? It certainly isn't like any of the planets in the solar system. In fact, the definition of a planet is tailored mostly to our solar system, Barclay said. According to the International Astronomical Union, a planet must orbit a star, be large enough...
During a ten-hour period that repeats every 2 days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes, Algol dims noticeably and then re-brightens when a companion star with an orbit nearly edge-on to Earth crosses behind the much brighter main star, reducing the total light output we perceive. Algol normally shin...
Kepler believed it was due to the affinity that the Moon had for water which was one of the four basic elements [48] in [8]. Gravity was also recognised as an agent of lunar influence with the publication of “Principia” by Newton (1643–1727). The analyses of various physics ...