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Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form

of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[1][2]

Science may be as old as the human species,[3] and some of the earliest archeological
evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old.[4] The earliest written
records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around
3000 to 1200 BCE.[5][6] Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy,
and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity,
whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical
world based on natural causes.[5][6] After the fall of the Western Roman Empire,
knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the
early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages,[7] but was preserved in the Muslim
world during the Islamic Golden Age.[8]

The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe
from the 10th to 13th century revived "natural philosophy",[7][9] which was later transformed
by the Scientific Revolution that began in the 16th century[10] as new ideas and
discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions.[11][12] The scientific
method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation and it was not until the 19th
century that many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take
shape;[13][14] along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science".[15]

Modern science is typically divided into three major branches:[16] natural


sciences (e.g., biology, chemistry, and physics), which study the physical world;
the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which
study individuals and societies;[17][18] and the formal sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics,
and theoretical computer science), which study formal systems, governed by axioms and
rules.[19][20] There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines,[21][22]
[23]
because they do not rely on empirical evidence.[24][22] Applied sciences are disciplines
that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as
in engineering and medicine.[25][26][27]

New knowledge in science is advanced by research from scientists who are motivated by
curiosity about the world and a desire to solve problems.[28][29] Contemporary scientific
research is highly collaborative and is usually done by teams in academic and research
institutions,[30] government agencies, and companies.[31][32] The practical impact of their
work has led to the emergence of science policies that seek to influence the scientific
enterprise by prioritizing the ethical and moral development of commercial
products, armaments, health care, public infrastructure, and environmental protection.

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