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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

A former NFL player named John Urschel decided to do some light reading this week, and for him that meant leafing through the latest math papers from OpenAI about topics such as the Riemann hypothesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

An unlikely candidate would turn the quantum hypothesis from a peculiarity to an accepted fact.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

"When we get the sample back, we'll be able to look in detail at its chemistry and its mineral composition - and the two hypotheses will produce very distinct results," said Sara Russell.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

They use it to brainstorm ideas, find literature, improve writing, refine arguments and test competing hypotheses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

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

After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos