Why "Nothing" Matters in Science

Опубликовано 19 марта 2021, 16:36

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Null results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose results fail to support their hypotheses.

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Null result: a result in a scientific study that doesn’t support the hypothesis
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XENON1T: a highly sensitive experiment to search for direct interactions of dark matter particles. It’s located deep under Italy’s Gran Sasso mountain at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.

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