"scientific task" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a task or project that involves scientific research, methods, or principles. Example: We have been given a scientific task to conduct experiments and collect data on the effects of climate change on coral reefs.
The scientific task is to help determine the nature of future climatic effects as early as possible.
Even though it is a science in which the believers or the adherents of a particular religion explicate and critically analyze the truth that is represented by them, it nevertheless has to remain free within the framework of this commitment, and it has to fulfill the responsibility of its scientific task on the basis of its own autonomy.
Compilations like the one discovered by Fischer formed the archives and the raw data for Schöner's work as an astronomer, astrologer, and globemaker, and the collections provided him with a kind of toolbox from which he would pull the information necessary for whatever scientific task was at hand.
We might have formed a scientific task force capable of competing with the rest of the world.
We show that combinatorial search, constrained by experimental evidence, domain knowledge, and simplicity, is sufficient to discover credible explanatory hypotheses in a scientific task of current importance.
Concept formation for Rickert indicates "the conclusion of an investigation" (Rickert 1986, 27), that is the fulfillment of the scientific task posed at the beginning of that investigation.
Two Spanish military officers accompanied them, making sure they limited their observations to those necessary for their scientific tasks.
One of the great scientific tasks of the day is to understand how and why trees die.
The site tests his theory that many scientific tasks require a good eye and common sense but not much scientific training.
The shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft: it was launched into space vertically like a conventional rocket and then orbited the Earth while scientific tasks were performed.
Such computer systems are smaller than portable television sets but have enough computing power to perform many business, industrial, and scientific tasks.
