write a general specific paragraph on Science and progress
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Types of Scientific Progress
Discovery. Science makes progress when it demonstrates the existence of previously unknown phenomena or relationships among phenomena, or when it discovers that widely shared understandings of phenomena are wrong or incomplete.
Analysis. Science makes progress when it develops concepts, typologies, frameworks of understanding, methods, techniques, or data that make it possible to uncover phenomena or test explanations of them. Thus, knowing where and how to look for discoveries and explanations is an important type of scientific progress. Improved theory, rigorous and replicable methods, measurement techniques, and databases all contribute to analysis.
Explanation. Science makes progress when it discovers regularities in the ways phenomena change over time or finds evidence that supports, rules out, or leads to qualifications of possible explanations of these regularities.
Integration. Science makes progress when it links theories or explanations across different domains or levels of organization. Thus, science progresses when it produces and provides support for theories and explanations that cover broader classes of phenomena or that link understandings emerging from different fields of research or levels of analysis.
Development. Science makes progress when it stimulates additional research in a field or discipline, including research critical of past conclusions, and when it stimulates research outside the original field, including interdisciplinary research and research on previously questions. It also develops when it attracts new people to work on an important research problem.