To study friendship in the lab, many use a protocol called "Fast Friends, " which helps strangers establish "interpersonal closeness" in 45 minutes.

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Typically in a lab study, researchers recruit an equal number of male and female participants from a specific locale.

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He delved further into lung development, spending his study leave in 1971 in a lab in the old Radcliffe observatory in Oxford.

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At issue in the study is a quirk of billing for lab procedures.

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Last year, one study showed that bumblebees exposed to high doses of the neonic imidacloprid in the lab, then released to forage in the field, had sharply reduced colony growth rates and produced 85 percent fewer queens to found new colonies.

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In my discipline, for example, each school differs slightly on how to teach general chemistry, varies in where inorganic chemistry is placed in the plan of study, and has different laboratory equipment and thus varying lab curricula, etc.

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In a similar study presented at a conference last year, 75 lean women ate buffet meals for several days in a lab.

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To further study the reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab.

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But it has inspired other schemes, including a Stanford University study of how protein chains fold in on themselves and a global weather-forecasting model at the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Britain.

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