• Famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, the archipelago played a key role in his theory of evolution.

    CNN: Close encounters in the Galapagos

  • ETA's killings and could, in theory, play a role in negotiations himself.

    ECONOMIST: Unmasking the Basque separatists

  • Game-theory software played an important role in finding Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, says Mr Owen.

    ECONOMIST: Modelling behaviour

  • Putting such theory into practice was the role of the C.

    NEWYORKER: Remote Control

  • Mr Ebner would have had only a small role in the merged group, one theory goes, which is why he was probably only too happy to see the deal fail and played his part in ensuring that it did.

    ECONOMIST: Cross-border mergers

  • Role-based access control sounds fine in theory but is difficult in practice.

    ECONOMIST: Companies and information

  • That finding could, in theory, have implications for his role in charge of his TV empire - and no Conservative member of the committee was prepared to support it.

    BBC: What next for the phone hacking report?

  • Michael Vaughan experimented with some bizarre fields, at one point opting for a Douglas Jardine-style leg theory, with Anderson adopting the role of Harold Larwood and five fielders gathered in catching positions on the leg-side.

    BBC: South Africa earn draw at Lord's

  • The authors conclude that their findings support a theory that females may have played a similarly important role in the evolution of tool technology among early humans.

    BBC: Chimps sharpened the spears with their teeth

  • Though punctuated-equilibrium theory as originally conceived has made few converts, the role of accidents in evolution is more widely appreciated, as asteroid collisions and nearby supernovae are recognised as hazards that can wipe out whole groups of organisms arbitrarily.

    ECONOMIST: Stephen Jay Gould

  • Memory also appears to play a role in imagining what someone else might be feeling, known as theory of mind, which is helpful in deciding how to behave in unfamiliar social situations, such as going to a party with a new group of friends or starting a job.

    WSJ: Memory: Research Finds Links Between Recall, Future Planning

  • That suggests another theory is needed, in which the state plays a bigger role in the origin of money.

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • Comment: This provision harkens back to traditional Leninist and Stalinist nationalities theory, which envisioned the nationalities as having a narrowly-circumscribed role within a unitary Soviet state.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The theory behind productive gossip is that evolution caused gossip to play an important role in society over thousands of years.

    FORBES: Why Gossip Is Good For The Office

  • Their theory is that genetics and lack of exposure to germs play a strong role in determining whether a child develops leukemia.

    CNN: Day care decreases leukemia risk

  • Mersenne primes are most relevant to number theory, but most participants join Gimps for the fun of having a role in real research - and the chance of finding a new Mersenne prime.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Largest Prime Number discovered

  • Globalization, extremist websites propagating the theory of Eurabia -- the colonization and Islamization of Europe -- and role-playing games all blend into one conspiratorial outlook that captures how Breivik views the world, how he defines his enemies, the fantasy world he sought to re-create in the real world and his narcissistic view of his role in the "resistance struggle" and the legacy he would leave behind.

    CNN: Disturbing look into mind of Norway suspect

  • The structure remains the third largest steerable telescope in the world and plays a key role in global research on pulsating stars, testing extreme physics theories including Einstein's general theory of relativity.

    BBC: Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell dies

  • He said the lengthy and costly inquest had played a crucial role in testing those theories - but that some people would continue to believe in the murder theory no matter what the verdict was.

    BBC: Duke 'did not order Diana death'

  • In theory, climate models should help tease out which of these indirect effects is playing the biggest role, and also say how much of the decline in ice cover can be assigned to natural variability and how much to feedback loops in which a little warming leads to a lot more.

    ECONOMIST: Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean is vanishing rapidly

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