Sentences with phrase «century old experiment»

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Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high - school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.

3500 year old thinking trumps a 21st century lab and countless experiments?

This thermometer record is imperfect, but researchers are working on improving it using new mathematical methods and experiments with some of the same centuries - old thermometers.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Using new types of experiments on neuronal cultures, a group of scientists, led by Prof. Ido Kanter, of the Department of Physics at Bar - Ilan University, has demonstrated that this century - old assumption regarding brain activity is mistaken.

This artificial joining of two separate animals, known as parabiosis, was a staple of physiology experiments for over a century before Irina Conboy got the idea to pair an old mouse with a young one.

They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories» contexts, and put a new twist on a centuries - old psychological research technique of having subjects memorize and recall a list of unrelated words.

«Scientists confirm century - old speculation on the chemistry of a high - performance battery: X-ray experiments reveal what's at work in an unconventional electrode.»

People should use recommendations as guidelines to help them experiment and find the amount of cod liver oil that works best for them, knowing that it has been a safe and valuable health - promoting food that for centuries has nourished both young and old.

Rather than scrambling for ways to minimize damage from such sudden and drastic funding cuts, energy would be better spent innovating, experimenting, and rigorously evaluating this half - century old program that still appears to have a valuable place in a modern college completion and career readiness agenda.

In 2013, after Franklin and Johnson teamed up with the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a small logging experiment near Roseburg, Oregon, protesters camped out for months among the limbs of the largest trees — some a century old — to block the project.