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scientific

[sahy-uhn-tif-ik] / ˌsaɪ ənˈtɪf ɪk /


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There’s no scientific basis that the quakes in Venezuela, California and near Japan are related, Jones said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

The project combines archaeology, paleontology, geology, and other scientific approaches to investigate one of the most important developments in human evolution: the use of fire.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

Legg also accused Microsoft of not sharing enough data for other scientists to scrutinise, which is how scientific research is generally either validated or dismissed by the wider expert community.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Tennis-court-sized supercomputers are used for frontier scientific research and problems such as predicting hurricanes and determining where oil deposits lie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

As we talk about where music theory comes from, it will be very useful to know both the scientific and the musical terms and how they are related to each other.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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