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The Meissner effect causes a magnet to levitate above a high-temperature superconductor.
Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is the effort to discover, understand, or to understand better, how the physical world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding. It is done through observation of existing phenomena, and/or through experimentation that tries to simulate phenomena under controlled conditions.
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1 Etymology
2 History of science
2.1 Distinguished from technology
3 Scientific method
3.1 Mathematics
4 Philosophy of science
5 Critiques
5.1 Science, pseudoscience and nonscience
5.2 Philosophical focus
5.3 The media and the scientific debate
5.4 Epistemological inadequacies
6 Scientific community
6.1 Fields
6.2 Institutions
6.3 Literature
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
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