The phrase "a touch of science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that incorporates a small amount of scientific elements or principles, often in a creative or informal context.
Example: "The recipe has a touch of science, as it explains the chemical reactions that occur during baking."
Alternatives: "a hint of science" or "a dash of science".
Still, Dr. Watson's findings add a touch of science to the folkloric view of mistletoe as a tantalizer, inducing people to wait under it for a kiss at Christmas.
What's more, since "starchitect" Zaha Hadid added a touch of science fiction to the city's skyline, in the form of the Hungerburg Funicular and the Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck has confirmed that it has one foot in the future, too.
It's a complicated question that elicits a touch of science and a whole lot of opinion from a cohort of tote-bag-wielding locavores.
Spotify tried to lend a touch of science to our collective inability to hear certain lines as musicians intended them, and conducted a poll to identify the most misquoted song lyrics of all time.
Grillo's book is terrific — full of vivid front-line reporting; diverse interviews; a sense of history; a touch of social science; clarifying statistics; and realistic reviews of what might be done to improve things, none of it easy.
If it is willing to adopt a touch of humility, science will see that ancient contemplative traditions arrived at conclusions that were not duplicated until "objective" methods acquired incredibly advanced, precise tools.
I'll start with a touch of meta-science.
But, today it also takes a touch of poetry and of data science.
What marks Gravity out from other science fiction stories is that it is built on a lot of solid science and only a touch of fiction, rather than the other way around.
The Chinese Room's Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, released this summer, quietly takes on nuclear war anxieties through its unsettling absence of people and touches of science fiction, and is striking for its bucolic rendering of an apocalypse.
