hypothesis

The researchers call their proposed explanation the adaptive aging hypothesis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The "capture" hypothesis, meanwhile, postulates that the moons are asteroids pulled in by Mars's gravity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

A new paper looking at the chemical reactions between water and disintegrating plastic offers a potential hypothesis for how microplastics might make us sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

There were scientists in the Manhattan Project who feared what a journalist later called the doomsday hypothesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

China’s biotech hubs also have a dense network of specialized contract research organizations, or CROs—which are critical for running clinical tests—allowing researchers to quickly transform scientific hypotheses into results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Some medical researchers let AI models take the lead alongside human lab workers to gather information, stress-test hypotheses, interpret data and spit out plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But there are several hypotheses, says Dr Alex Gofton, a tick expert who led a recent study into the allergy.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The continuing delay, he argues, points to competing hypotheses, unresolved leads and possible mechanical issues that have yet to be fully explained.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

But this diverse army of experts now marched out a phalanx of hypotheses to explain the drop in crime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt