SEATTLE — What is the "hygiene hypothesis" and does it have any legs among medical circles right now? HealthLink talked with a local physician about it to explain. The hygiene hypothesis is a theory ...

The cost matters hypothesis refers to keeping costs low for investors. In a 2005 article “The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic” published in the Financial Analysts’ Journal by the CFA Institute, ...

The efficient market hypothesis argues that current stock prices reflect all existing available information, making them fairly valued as they are presently. Given these assumptions, outperforming the ...

"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

If the data falls in the critical region, statisticians reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative. A one-tailed test in statistics is used to determine if a sample mean is significantly ...

What would you think if we said that the language we speak not only allows us to communicate but also determines how we perceive reality? This may seem like an exaggeration, but the Sapir-Whorf ...

Now that the James Webb Telescope is operational and churning out breathtaking images sure to give us a whole new perspective on our universe, the inevitable question of "are we alone in the universe?