Sentences with phrase «experiment in a quarter century»

In the 60 hours he spent bombarding metal foils with X-rays — creating analogs to stellar plasma, or ionized gas — Wark pulled more data than he had from any single experiment in a quarter century.

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The Quintis administration marks the end of a failed quarter century experiment in tax - driven financial wizardry.

Specifically, the authors found that researchers were six times likelier to perform experiments that covered known ground than to strike out in unexplored directions, and that this proportion remained steady even as scientific opportunities grew rapidly over the quarter century covered by the study.

These exotic particles, produced in the Sun, have been observed in an experiment that has been running for a quarter of a century at the bottom of a gold mine.

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A quarter of a century before, in 1981, her last husband had died in agony after accidentally infecting himself with spinal meningitis during an experiment.