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- Natural sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Astronomy [r]: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
- Earth sciences [r]: The study of the planet Earth. [e]
- Environmental sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
- Social sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). [e]
- Archaeology [r]: The scientific study of past human cultures by means of the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data. [e]
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Education [r]: Learning and teaching activities for the purpose of knowledge or skill acquisition, or the development of values or virtues. May also involve imparting culture or group socialization. [e]
- Geography [r]: Study of the surface of the Earth and the activities of humanity upon it. [e]
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Political science [r]: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. [e]
- Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
- Sociology [r]: Social science that studies human social behavior or social relations, social institutions and structures, demography, public opinion, social welfare, social psychology and some forms of political behavior, as well as the history of sociology. [e]
- Applied sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Agriculture [r]: The process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. [e]
- Architecture [r]: The art and technique of designing and constructing buildings to fulfill both practical and aesthetic purposes. [e]
- Cognitive sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Computer sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Engineering [r]: The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. [e]
- Health sciences [r]: The helping professions that use applied science to improve health and to treat disease. [e]
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- History of science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy of science [r]: Philosophical study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. [e]
- Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
- Scientific constants [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific laws [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: Systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- Scientific units [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientist [r]: A person employing the scientific method to gather information about a system of interest; often used in the narrow sense of people engaged with natural sciences. [e]
