These days, however, IV looks like a giant science experiment--with few results and lots of questions for its investors.
Life itself is the most telling social science experiment of them all and we are its most thoroughly tested lab rats.
Over 35, 000 students worldwide participated in a giant science experiment on water as part of the International Year of Chemistry, led by UNESCO.
"It felt a little more like a science experiment than something that's going to go touch millions of people, " Spencer said of the Batman game.
The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter represents the first time a Mars landing has been captured by another spacecraft.
Even the building itself is a giant science experiment.
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Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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Asking the right questions is probably the most important part of the thought process and it turns out you can run a company successfully as a data science experiment if you ask questions.
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They put in something with tools on it for future missions, and they also set up a science experiment which is going to look--how materials--look at--study materials in outer space, and it'll radio back its results.
Nokia will support MeeGo as an open source initiative and expects to ship one MeeGo device in 2011, but my take here made it feel like the MeeGo effort more as a science experiment, than a product strategy.
Scientists remain unsure as to why glaciers speed up their movement in the summer months and it is hoped that the rubber ducks -- labeled with the words "science experiment" and "reward" in three languages, along with an email address -- will shed some light on the phenomenon.
But if history is any guide, foreign policy as a political-science field experiment or what-me-worryism will yield some ugly results.
The point was to set people thinking about energy efficiency, to inspire the young to take up science, and to experiment for the joy of it.
"It was what appeared to be an experiment in a science lab which caused a ball of flame, " he said.
Michelle placed second in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition for an experiment measuring alertness and anxiety among teenagers separated from their cell phones.
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Still, he says, many of the attendees considered Ms. Swan's experiment to be "soft" science.
When dealing with Simic science, one never knows whether the next experiment will turn out to be a shark frog or crocodile ooze.
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.
Imagine an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that science can be funny.
The Global Microscience Experiment Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students ( in some countries university students as well) the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that come with booklets describing possible scientific experiments.
Corrine Moss-Racusin and her fellow researchers conducted an experiment in which they gave student applications to science professors at a number of universities to evaluate for a lab manager position.
Polar researchers have collaborated with artists and designers to produce a CD-Rom that allows kids to investigate the science of the White Continent whilst at the same time experiment with sound.
The Department of Science and Technology in South Africa generously donated IYC Global Experiment kits to the schools that attended the Big Splash as the schools lacked the equipment to conduct the Experiment.
Today, science is the religion to which we try and understand reality and science is more about seeking perceptual validation through observation, through experiment theory.
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Science, they say, makes predictions that are then confirmed by experiment.
The experiment was successful and the results were published in the journal Science today.
Prizes for natural science are rarely given to theory makers until their theories have survived contact with observation and 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.
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