Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
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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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Null result: a result in a scientific study that doesn’t support the hypothesis
- Premature birth: also known as preterm birth, is a birth that occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy
- 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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