Sentences with phrase «chance observation»

This week scientists will once again trek to remote corners of the globe to make last - chance observations of a Venusian transit — although they're not risking life and limb to do so, merely lost luggage, missed connections and inclement weather.

«3 It is here that we find out why the passing applications of this notion of attention to aesthetics and concreteness that I have cited are much more than tactical chance observations.

Curious about whether the Hungarian findings might be a fluke — some meaningless chance observation — Fisk decided to essentially repeat the experiment at his lab.

A chance observation led researchers to add the Australian Magpie to the short list of birds that dunk their food in water before eating.

Finding candidate drugs and developing them into bedside treatments has come a long way since Alexander Fleming first made a chance observation of the effect of penicillin mould on bacterial growth back in 1928.

A chance observation about warts on a pea plant led a trio of teenagers on a three - year mission to solve the world food crisis.

The research was inspired by a chance observation a few years ago.

Galvani made the chance observation, described in 1791, that a frog will twitch if laid out for dissection on a table with a generator.

In such noisy systems, it is easy to mistake a chance observation for a robust, biologically meaningful effect.

«But most repurposing of drugs is still due to chance observations or educated guesses,» Butte says.

However, a slight offset between the periods of the temperature and LED modulations lends to the possibility that the effect is a chance observation of the two sinusoids at an unfortunate point in their beat cycle.