hypothesizing

The Amanchukwu Lab -- which is most notable for its battery research -- applied insights from aqueous batteries to the problem, hypothesizing that controlling the water with organic solvents could provide a solution.

Thus, a controversy was sparked, with many scientists hypothesizing that non-cyanobacterial microorganisms must be responsible for the "missing" nitrogen fixation.

Gradually, discussion of her absence morphed from chatter online, including among conspiracy theorists, to mainstream hypothesizing.

But they can also be longer, which means more effort, more information seeking and hypothesizing is needed, so uncertainty persists longer.

He said that may be related to climate change — hypothesizing that insects are more active in higher temperatures — but it might be due to something else.