by Apeksha Srivastava

Why are there so many stars in the sky? Is there life on other planets? Why did the dinosaurs disappear? How did we come into existence? Like many other kids, I was curious about a lot of things during my school days. “Science is the answer,” teachers used to tell us, looking into our wonder-filled eyes.

Science: the systematic study of not just the world but the entire universe. In the most basic terms, it involves efforts to make sense of things through experiments and evidence-based explanations. Until the 12th grade in school and even preliminary years of college, most of us are under the impression that science is “rigidly” based on facts and rules. Our course curriculum makes us believe that most of the science is already known. It leads to the common assumption that researchers and scientists work with a predefined set of frameworks. Is that really the case? Or is there a difference between how we think science is practiced and how it is actually practiced?

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