Looking at the bright side, cosmologists say they welcome the new observations because they put their work on a more scientific footing.

Schneider sought to put psychopathy diagnoses on a morally neutral and scientific footing.

Since then, both theoretical and experimental research have put quasicrystals on a solid scientific footing.

"This area is near to attaining a true scientific footing that will facilitate public acceptance."

It was one of the first books to provide a scientific footing for matching fingerprints and for later acceptance in courts.

His work has put this industrially important field on a rigorous scientific footing.

At one level, ecology was a reaction against the old natural history, a determined effort to put field studies on a new, more scientific footing.

He wanted to put alchemy on a more scientific footing - ditching the metaphysical baggage it had brought with it from the previous century.

It took a long time to develop practical controlled fusion power after the possiblity had first been conceived and put on a sound scientific footing.

Operations were put on a scientific footing.