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science, scientific discipline (noun)

a particular branch of scientific knowledge
"the science of genetics"
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    • scientist
      a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems.
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.
In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice which is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the undergraduate liberal arts and sciences.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science.
The geologic time scale is a chronologic schema relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth.
Library science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.
Christian Science is a religious belief system founded by Mary Baker Eddy in the year 1866 and is practiced most prominently by members of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
The Academy of Television Arts& Sciences was founded in 1946; just one month after network television was born.
Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and individual differences.
Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the biological sciences.
Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.
Planetary science, also known as planetology and closely related to planetary astronomy, is the science of planets, or planetary systems, and the solar system.
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.
The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, Usa, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which offered a unique interpretation of Christian faith.
The Book of Optics was a seven-volume treatise on optics, physics, mathematics, anatomy and psychology written by the Iraqi Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haytham in 1011-21, when he was under house arrest in Cairo, Egypt.
Behavioural science is a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world.
Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants for the benefit of humankind.
The Armenian Academy of Sciences is the primary body that conducts research in and coordinates activities in the fields of science and social sciences in the Republic of Armenia.
Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the subsurface activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas.
Tissue engineering was categorised under Biomaterials, but now it is big field so it can be considered as separate field, and is the use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biological functions.
A phase diagram in physical chemistry, engineering, mineralogy, and materials science is a type of chart used to show conditions at which thermodynamically-distinct phases can occur at equilibrium.
Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment wherein a material is altered, causing changes in its properties such as strength and hardness.
Marine Protected Area is a protected area whose boundaries include some area of ocean.
Men who have sex with men or males who have sex with males refers to men who engage in sexual activity with other men, regardless of how they identify themselves; many choose not to accept social identities of gay or bisexual.
African studies is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics.
In the natural sciences under the umbrella of natural history, Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute age of rocks, fossils, and sediments, within a certain degree of uncertainty inherent within the method used.

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