Another experiment the team are carrying out involves taking a metre-deep soil sample, which co-researcher Rebecca Rowe describes as "quite unusual".
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In another experiment, the team repeated the test with 20 children between the ages of two and seven.
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In the second part of the experiment, the team was able to find out exactly why the cockroaches were so repulsed.
Marc Lievremont's reign in charge of Les Bleus, which began with a 27-6 win at Murrayfield two years ago, has been characterised by his willingness to experiment with his team selection.
In one experiment Walsh and his team injected mice with a toxin, called MPTP, that induces Parkinson's disease by killing off dopaminergic neurons.
Earlier this year the team launched another experiment to the edge of space.
But, observes Colin Pillinger of the Open University, a British member of the Flying Stones team, the experiment will cost almost nothing to carry out, so it is worth a try in any case.
To try the system out, the team established an experiment with 100 participants, all of whom were asked either to watch a short video and describe what they saw, or to listen to the description and describe what they heard.
During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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The experiment, conducted by a team from the Hamamatsu University of Medicine, found that the larvae of fruit flies hit with this electron rush were able to withstand an electron microscope's hostile vacuum unharmed and even grew to be healthy adults.
"Video conferencing does not give participants the physical sensation of being in the same shared space, and certainly not the physical capability to actually carry out actions in that space, " said Prof Mandayam Srinivasan from UCL who was part of the research team behind the experiment.
Now to help facilitate the growth of robot scientists for routine, automated experiment, King and his team are urging that the methods and processes of science be formalized, to remove the ambiguities of natural language and make it easier to reproduce experiments and build the bases of knowledge.
Prof John Pickett, leader of the research team, defended the experiment and says that they are dedicated in finding new ways to "protect our crops".
In one experiment, Ms. Mason and her team had 130 sets of people negotiate the price of a used car.
Opponents of the water test pointed out the many uncertainties in the research (which is precisely why the team wanted to do the experiment).
In July 2011, AMS operations moved back to CERN, where the AMS team continues monitoring and controlling the experiment 24 hours a day, with the capability to gather data for as long as the space station is in orbit.
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Bring in a team of biologists and chemists to experiment with different chemical variations of the potential drug, try them out in cells, try them out in mice, then in bunnies and dogs, and eventually try them out in humans.
Having now understood the house's behavior under stress, Kopp and his team will now set about recreate the experiment but this time measuring the load on the nails which lifted.
Carl Sagan, a member of the Viking science team, said the best life detection experiment on Viking was the camera because we'd be able to see if, in fact, there were any form of life on Mars.
Such brightening has been observed in the exhaust plumes of cargo ships for some time, but Lynn Russell, who ran the experiment, was still surprised by how much brightening the team saw.
The team has chosen this plant as it is easy to experiment with and carries minimal risk for spreading into the wild.
The mask of another name also enables writers to experiment without alienating the audience, or give one name to a team effort.
It took the team nine months to perfect the motion for the two-month experiment.
He recalled scoffing at a proposal, only to learn that the team putting it forward already had started testing the idea with an experiment.
The new content management system has helped the league figure out what fans want, and Berman notes that the team-branded platforms allow plenty of room for NFL teams to experiment and try new things.
We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage medium -- most recently with a Harvard team fitting 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material -- and it looks like that research trend is only picking up.
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With any luck, that input will start rolling in soon: Valve is preparing to update its popular free-to-play shooter, Team Fortress 2 with a Rift-compatible VR mode, openly describing the update as an experiment.
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