The phrase "a science called" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing or referring to a specific field of study or discipline.
Example: "There is a science called neuroscience that explores the structure and function of the nervous system."
Alternatives: "a field known as" or "a discipline referred to as".
"FOUNDATION", a novel by Isaac Asimov from the golden age of science fiction, imagines a science called psychohistory which enables its practitioners to predict precisely the behaviour of large groups of people.
"The detection of the effects due to very small amounts of a chemical uses a science called epidemiology, which is one of those horribly imprecise exercises that requires what I call a barn door positive - something so bloody obvious that even an epidemiologist can spot it". Another area of DIY chemical exposure that epidemiologists are studying for health effects is paint.
This copycatting gave birth to a science called biomimicry, also known as biometrics.
Kauffman is a player in a new science called complexity theory, much in vogue at his base at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.
No less an authority than Bill James, father of a baseball science called sabermetrics, agrees.
And now a new science called psychoacoustics establishes the huge difference between a sound as made and what actually gets past our ears.
Professor Olson and his colleagues are pioneers of a new science called forensic astronomy.
As he states in the book, Leibniz intended to develop "the seeds of a new science called natural geography".
There is a long history of research into risk-taking, in mammals, birds, insects, adolescents and financiers; this has even led to a new science called neuroeconomics.
This kind of "dirty data" involves a mathematical science called Bayesian statistics that allows statisticians to glean strong conclusions off large, population data, just like economists do.
This effort is being facilitated by the development of an interdisciplinary science called Earth system science.
