Health

Guidance on energy and macronutrients across the lifespan

In the long history of recommendations for nutritional intake, current research is trending toward the concept of "food as medicine"—a philosophy in which food and nutrition are positioned within interventions to support ...

Diabetes

Could lack of sleep increase your risk of type 2 diabetes?

Not getting enough sleep is a common affliction in the modern age. If you don't always get as many hours of shut-eye as you'd like, perhaps you were concerned by news of a recent study that found people who sleep less than ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Bacteria behind meningitis in babies explained

A study led by University of Queensland researchers has identified the main types of E. coli bacteria that cause neonatal meningitis, and revealed why some infections recur despite being treated with antibiotics.

page 1 from 13

Research

Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so.

Scientific research relies on the application of the scientific method, a harnessing of curiosity. This research provides scientific information and theories for the explanation of the nature and the properties of the world around us. It makes practical applications possible. Scientific research is funded by public authorities, by charitable organisations and by private groups, including many companies. Scientific research can be subdivided into different classifications according to their academic and application disciplines.

Historical research is embodied in the historical method.

The term research is also used to describe an entire collection of information about a particular subject.

What is a pyrenean mountain goat

This text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA