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SCIENCES

[photo, Information Technology & Engineering Building, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland] Sciences can be divided into two main groups: applied sciences and fundamental sciences.

APPLIED SCIENCES
Applied sciences, including engineering and medicine, use existing knowledge to develop applications, such as technology.


Information Technology & Engineering Building, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, May 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES
Fundamental sciences deal with basic laws or principles as they apply to objects and forces in order to establish theories or predictions and include the formal, natural, and social sciences.

  • Formal sciences focus on abstract structures and thought, such as mathematics and statistics.

  • Natural sciences, like chemistry and geology, study and try to predict phenomena in nature.
[photo, Lost Towns Project archeological team, Anne Arundel County, Maryland]
  • Social sciences, such as archeology and psychology, study society and human relationships and behavior.

  • Natural and social sciences are empirical sciences, which require that information be acquired by either observation or experimentation, and can be validated.


Lost Towns Project archeological team, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, September 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

APPLIED SCIENCES

FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES

[photo, Projectile point [arrowhead], Lost Towns Project, Anne Arundel County, Maryland]

Projectile point [arrowhead], Lost Towns Project, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, September 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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