• Question: How many branches of science are there?

    Asked by lilygrainger to Anouk, Chris, Judith, Leisha, Seyyed on 12 Jun 2012.
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      Chris Kettle answered on 12 Jun 2012:

      Lily you are asking two many questions! Just kidding, glad you’re interested.

      That depends on how far you classify the science- classically biology chemistry and psyics. But these can include biochemistry, chaos theory, astronomy, life sciences, earth sciences,people sciences etc

      Have a look in a good science text for even more

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      Judith Sleeman answered on 12 Jun 2012:

      There seem to be more pretty much every month! But I think we need to get away from trying to classify the type of science that we do. Modern science is increasingly interdisciplinary (and not only because the people who control the funding tell us that’s what they like!). For example, I use lasers (physics) to look at cells (biology) and there are now molecules (chemistry) that can give us really important information about what is going on inside the cells. We all need to talk to each other as much as possible.

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      Seyyed Shah answered on 12 Jun 2012:

      Interesting question.

      Judith and Chris have provide good answers to this question. I would like to add…

      I think of science as being one of the following:
      (i) The study of the things around you, like the environment and forces.
      (ii) The study of yourself (for example how your brain and body works. This could include psychological and behaviour studies as well as laboratory research).
      (iii) The study of what everything is made of (for example, the study of atoms and molecules).

      You could put Biology, Chemistry or Physics into more than one category above. This tells us that to study something, we often have to take elements of Biology, Chemistry and Physics and combine them in our research.

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