Word: experimenters
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The result of the American colonial experiment was trickle-down democracy. Concentrating on the practicalities of ruling the archipelago, U.S. viceroys allied themselves with the elite who held the rest of the country in feudal servitude. (Among the descendants of that elite: President Aquino.) The masses followed their masters who...
Researchers rush to check out a startlingly simple experiment that could be the breakthrough in nuclear fusion they have sought for nearly 40 years.
Thus late last month began a saga that continues to engage the attention of the scientific world as rarely before. The announcement by the two chemists, B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, while greeted with skepticism, also triggered...
Then the details of the experiment began to emerge. By an informal process known as "publication by fax," copies of a paper Pons and Fleischmann had prepared began to circulate from lab to lab. Next, one of the best-known figures in the field, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young...
Bureaucracy Watch: There are two teams of Harvard researchers racing to help confirm the results of a University of Utah fusion report that could revolutionize science and, possibly, American society. One of the Harvard scientists, whose experiment will likely be finished on Monday or Tuesday, said that he might have...