Word: experimention
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According to the emerging science of chaos theory, many natural systems that appear utterly random -- tumbling waterfalls, roiling weather patterns, clusters of earthquakes -- are really governed by underlying mathematical patterns. Now an experiment reported in Science has shown that understanding chaos could one day save lives.
When the government initiated a stock-market experiment, as many as 1 million Chinese poured into Shenzhen to buy lottery tickets entitling 500,000 winners to buy 1,000 shares apiece. Would-be investors soon heaved themselves into a riot that brought out cops with tear gas and truncheons. A...
Despite its prevalence, bisexuality traditionally has not been granted independent status as a category of sexuality. Instead, the behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua...
Still, it might have been worse. NASA has had little experience with tethered satellites, and no one was sure how this one would behave. There was some fear that it would wobble wildly at the end of its cord. The astronauts were prepared to cut the whole thing loose if...
Every rodent must die when the experiment it is a part of ends. According to veterinarian Stuart E. Wiles, commissioner of laboratory animals for the City of Cambridge, there is no alternative. Once an animal is used in a study, it is considered worthless for further experimentation, Wiles says...