It’s a basic axiom of the scientific method, dubbed “falsifiability” by the 20th century philosopher of science Karl Popper. General relativity passes the falsifiability test because ...

But where does this falsifiability requirement leave certain areas of theoretical physics? String theory, for example, involves physics on extremely small length scales unreachable by any foreseeable ...

What makes a theory scientific is something other than the fact that it is right. Of the answers that have been proposed, Popper’s own criterion—falsifiability—remains the most commonly invoked, ...

Identified as the defining characteristic of real science by the philosopher Karl Popper more than 70 years ago, falsifiability has long been regarded by many scientists as a trusty weapon for ...

Here are five points that explain why. Falsifiability is the idea that an assertion can be shown to be false by an experiment or an observation, and is critical to distinctions between “true ...