From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of progress.

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It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

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Scientific Method is a lengthy Side Mission, split into four sections. Most of these tasks involve traveling all over the environment to locate samples, pressing some buttons, and coming right back.