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Electricity In 1778, a strange line pattern in the grass leads Martin, Andreas and Michael to a talk of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. He describes the geneation of these patterns in his laboratory in G

Vakuum Can something like a NOTHING really BE in existence? This story tells you about the german mayor von Guericke and his losing game to prove the existence of the vacuum. Guericke and vacuum

Opowiadanie @ model nauczania (S@TM) Projekt "Opowiadanie @ model nauczania (S@TM)" został zaprojektowany tak, aby mógł mieć wkład do profesjonalnego rozwoju nauczycieli przedmiotów przyrodniczych szk

Empirical evidence Science requires and relies on empirical evidence. Empirical evidence is frequently created through experimentation which is certainly one of the major methodological approaches in

Creative Creativeness in sciences is evident for those who practice science, however, for those who do not, science appears to be either unflexible and acting according to some rules that can neither

Prove While science cannot "prove" its knowledge, its conclusions are still accepted and durable, Scientific knowledge can only be "proven" within the accepted reference frame, however, some of the fu

Step-by-step There is no single step-by-step method by which all science is done. A classical misconception identifies the production of scientific knowledge by a sort of cybernetic model. At the begi

Subjective Science has a subjective aspect to it. Science and scientific research are normally considered to be objective, yet, there are also subjective aspects: Scientists decide what they take for

Laws and theories While laws and theories in science are related, they are still distinct from each other. "One of the most resilient misconceptions about science is that laws are mature theories and,