This alternative is said to provide scientific definitions that better accommodate the inherent variation of certain kinds of phenomena. Its implications are examined and they point to it not being an ...

In early 2017, the two of us, along with a few others, refreshed the debate on the definition of planet in scientific nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) historic ...

The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is massive enough that gravity has forced it into a spherical shape, and has cleared away other ...

Mary Ellen Sanders, Executive Science Officer of ISAPP, says, "To date, different people have had different ideas of what constitutes a fermented food. The new definition provides a clear concept that ...

Today, the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team — a group NASA assembled in January — delivered a 156-page report that offers proposals touching on what will be necessary in a technological sense ...

NASA chartered the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team in January to scope out instruments for the proposed rover mission that will meet the project’s budget, deadline and goals.

The Science Definition Team substantiated these Objectives with Goals and Investigations identified by the community over the last decade in guiding documents and current white papers (Section 5).

Now, 13 interdisciplinary scientists from the fields of microbiology, food science and technology, family medicine, ecology, immunology, and microbial genetics have come together to create the first ...