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All Theories & Experiments

The claims science has tested and the tests themselves: a theory describes what is held to be true and why, an experiment is the test that supported or challenged it. Together they are the atlas's record of how a claim earned its standing.

Generative Grammar

Genetic Drift

Geocentrism

Geographical Cycle

Germ Theory of Disease

Giant-Impact Hypothesis

Gibbs' Phase Rule

Glacial Theory

Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

Grand Unified Theory

Griffith's Transformation Experiment

Grimm's Law

Group Selection

Halting Problem

Handicap Principle

Hardy-Weinberg Principle

Heliocentrism

Henry's Law

Hershey-Chase Experiment

Hess's Law

Higgs Mechanism

Hodgkin's Insulin Structure

Hooke's Law

Hubble bubble (astronomy)

Hubble's Law

Humorism

Hygiene Hypothesis

Ideal Gas Law

Inductivism

Information Theory

Island Biogeography Theory

Isostasy

Joule's Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Experiment

Keeling Curve

Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

Kin Selection

Kinetic Theory of Gases

Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws

Kolmogorov Complexity

Lamarckian Inheritance

Lamarckism

Late Heavy Bombardment

Law of Conservation of Mass

Law of Definite Proportions

Law of Large Numbers

Law of Multiple Proportions

Law of specific nerve energies

Law of Superposition

Le Chatelier's Principle

Lewis Acid-Base Theory

Linguistic Relativity

Loop Quantum Gravity

Lorenz's 1961 Numerical Weather Simulation

Luminiferous Aether

Mantle Convection

Mantle Plume Hypothesis

Many-Worlds Interpretation

Mass-Energy Equivalence

Maxwell's Equations

Mendelian Inheritance

Mendel's Pea Plant Experiments

Meselson-Stahl Experiment

Metabolic Theory of Ecology

Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

Miasma Theory

Michelson-Morley Experiment

Milankovitch Cycles

Milgram Obedience Experiment

Miller-Urey Experiment

Millikan Oil Drop Experiment

Modern Synthesis

Molecular Clock

Molecular Orbital Theory

Moore's Law

Muller's Ratchet

Multiregional Origin of Modern Humans

Mutationism

Natural Selection

Nebular Hypothesis

Neuron Doctrine