Word: experimention
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IF SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE THERE IS A HELL FOR journalists, it probably resembles the current condition of NBC News. Last month Dateline NBC stars Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching...
Now, 2 1/2 years after that historic experiment, Anderson reported to the Cold Spring Harbor symposium, both this child and another young Ohio girl who began the same treatment a few months later have acceptable levels of the ADA enzyme and are leading normal, healthy lives, needing only to return...
And Now, the Good News: Last year's shocking loss to RPI ended a brief ECAC experiment of one-game quarterfinals. (In fact, the experiment could be called a one-shot deal.) Before last year, teams played a best-of-three quarterfinal series.
On Monday a panel of outside experts called upon to shore up Biosphere 2's scientific underpinnings announced that they had voted to resign, citing unspecified conflicts with the project's managers. "I was frustrated by the lack of progress," said biologist Thomas Lovejoy, the panel's chairman. The Biospherians...
One of the easiest examples to understand is sand dunes, which maintain their overall shape despite winds and sandslides. Researchers at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center built an artificial dune, a tiny sandpile sitting on a sensitively balanced plate, to study this behavior in detail. In one experiment, they...