"The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models," scientists say, and "decisive" new probes are needed to solve the mystery.

Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports::“The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models,” scientists say, and “decisive” new probes are needed to solve the mystery.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not him, but now that I think about it, there is a tendency for many people to prefer the more generalized term.

    Where scientists don’t tend to use the word scientist as much, I can’t recall ever seeing the term in a journal article for instance. (I don’t read many, but I’ll read an abstract here and there) I’m not sure why. I expect it’s some categorization thing, where not all scientists perform research, so researcher is the more precise term. I’m just guessing as to the reason though, I do not have a PhD.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would guess because “scientist” has no qualifying definition and is also vague. I just conducted an experiment to see if a McDonald’s cups bottom would retain 4oz of Coca-Cola over the course of 5 days in a hot car (it didn’t). Yay I am a scientist.

      At least researcher or “research scientist” gives some idea of what the title is implying.