what do scientists discover relevant information/facts from?

Question: what do scientists discover relevant information/facts from?
- Keywords:
  facts,
  information,
  relevant
Asked by *zoemma* to Siana, Sara, Richard, Peter, Carolyn on 16 Nov 2015.
- Richard Unwin answered on 16 Nov 2015:
  
  Fantastic question. We look in books, online, and In scientific journals – like magazines where other scientists publish the results of their experiments, to get background knowledge. Then we design and do experiments of our own to test ideas we have and see if they are right.

Question: what do scientists discover relevant information/facts from?