From lab experiments to marketing surveys, jobs in research cover a wide range of industries.
With an estimated burial temperature of 13 °C, the DNA's half - life was 521 years — almost 400 times longer than expected
from lab experiments at similar temperatures.
We knew
this from lab experiments, but it wasn't clear whether it occurred in the wild or what effect it had.
The field study «represents a big leap,» says Sidney Gauthreaux of Clemson University in South Carolina, by adding to knowledge gained
from lab experiments.
They weren't estimating or extrapolating
from lab experiments — they were applying the laws of fundamental quantum mechanics to derive iron's properties at extreme pressures and temperatures.
«That's how you can go
from a lab experiment a cubic millimeter in size to saying sweeping things like, «The whole process of differentiation and core formation wrapped up very fast in geologic terms, taking only a few million years,»» he says with a lingering flutter of amazement in his voice.
Views Jupiter's south pole (upper left and lower right) and images
from the lab experiment to re-create the planet's winds (upper right and lower left).
Not exact matches
One of the three
experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining
from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study
lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the
experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.
In that series of
experiments, fully two - thirds of experimental subjects — volunteers
from various walks of life — demonstrated that they were willing to administer a lethal dose of electricity to a stranger, just because an authority figure in a white
lab coat told them to.
Amazon Go is certainly one
experiment, and seemingly every big brand,
from Mastercard to Sephora, is dreaming up its own vision of the future inside whiz - bang concept
labs.
Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk
from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research
lab conducting strange
experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster
from another dimension being released).
These science
experiments combine fun with learning activities so put on your
lab coat and get ready to teach your children about everything
from metamorphosis to molecules.
Apart
from running
experiments, they organized the
lab, made and updated the chemical inventory, and prepared tons of common buffers that the
lab still continues to use.
In
lab experiments, for example, the primates will punish a chimp that takes food
from them by triggering a trapdoor that makes the food disappear.
From slavery to Napoleon, many phenomena can't be studied in the
lab — but we can still do
experiments, say Jared Diamond and James Robinson
Greg Rau, a scientist at LLNL and the University of California, Santa Cruz, conducted a series of small - scale
lab experiments that found seawater and calcium can be used to remove carbon dioxide
from a gas - fired plant.
George Preti's
lab is lined with fume cupboards, machinery for analyzing gases, and freezers packed with saliva and sweat samples and even archived T - shirts worn by people during
experiments into scents produced
from our underarms while we're stressed.
In the
lab, they also did an
experiment to see if wash water
from tunnels affected the protein activity in liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata.
In the meantime, a new analysis
from the BaBar
experiment, which ran at the SLAC National Accelerator
Lab in California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seems.
Despite resistance
from Navy skeptics, Bond began a series of
experiments at the Navy's submarine base at New London, Connecticut, where he was in charge of the medical research
lab.
Within the scope of an international cooperation with colleagues
from the Los Alamos National
Lab (USA),
from the University of Ulm (Germany) and
from the Hebrew University (Israel), PTB researchers have now, for the first time, succeeded in demonstrating topological defects in an atomic - optical
experiment in the laboratory.
From early, bizarre attempts at resuscitation to disturbing
lab experiments and painful decisions about removing a loved one's ventilator, Casarett covers the gamut of technological advances and their consequences.
The data of
lab experiments and population studies is coherent, meaning that data
from both sources point toward a similar conclusion.
She wants to help when people ask for guidance on techniques at her
lab, but stopping what she's doing for a one - on - one demo can distract her
from her own
experiments.
In
lab experiments using captive - bred mountain yellow - legged frogs
from eggs collected in the wild, Harris and his colleagues determined that the bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum, cultured
from wild frogs, was protective against chytrid.
In
lab experiments using tissue samples cultured
from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.
Chris Vassallo, a UW doctoral student in molecular biology and originally
from Cheyenne, was the paper's lead author and conducted most of the
lab experiments.
Gentzsch noted potential reasons to explain why patients in the clinical trial saw benefit
from the two drugs even though her team's
lab experiments produced evidence to the contrary.
Other groups are
experimenting with taking such tissue
from the nose, growing it in the
lab to isolate the desired cells and transplanting them.
At that point, he'll often come back into the
lab so that he can observe the
experiment and see where the inconsistency came
from.
The Oxford team has preliminary results
from field
experiments in Morocco that show that locusts in the desert behave like those in the
lab.
Bank of America's reversal emerged
from an
experiment led by Ben Waber, then a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media
Lab.
Also, during the holidays he does his best to keep us occupied and away
from the
lab so we don't have to sit there whilst he does
experiments on those nice summer days.
This is when tangible things like scientific materials and PhD students start moving
from one
lab to another to open up
experiments that would otherwise be impossible.
For the new study, Cochlan's
lab performed
experiments with P. australis
from the 2015 bloom.
For the purpose of additional
experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells
from embryonic stem cells and human skin cells, in collaboration with the
lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.
In
lab experiments, the researchers isolated exosomes
from specialized human cardiac stem cells and found that exosomes alone had the same beneficial effects as stem cells.
In another
experiment, in
lab - dish conditions, the researchers colonized roots of sterile - grown normal Arabidopsis plants with a set of 35 bacterial species isolated
from roots of plants grown previously in the same native soil.
Molecular biologist Matt Kaeberlein of the University of Washington in Seattle says the results are in line with work
from his
lab showing that slight differences in growth conditions, the genetic makeup of the yeast or other factors can change the outcome of the
experiment.
The Citizen Continental - America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE)
Experiment by the National Solar Observatory, for example, will rely on volunteers
from universities, high schools, informal education groups, and national
labs for an eclipse «relay race.»
The researchers, working on an
experiment called OPERA, beamed neutrinos through the earth's crust,
from CERN, the laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy, an underground physics
lab.
«It was a nice change
from working on chalkboards all the time to doing
lab experiments and working out in the fields,» Abordo said.
A dozen of the group's faculty members, along with students and postdoctoral researchers
from their
labs, contributed to the study, providing data
from 15 simulations and
experiments on different types of disordered systems.
As expected, biochemical
experiments in the Cheyette
lab revealed that DIXDC1 mutations impaired WNT signaling in neurons
from affected mice.
The myth of the scientific method as a series of neat and tidy steps
from hypothesis and prediction to
experiment and conclusion is busted once you go into a
lab and observe the more haphazard and messy realities of how researchers feel their way toward discovery.
Tang, a Chinese - born scientist who works at a USDA - funded nutrition
lab at Tufts, is accused of bringing cooked golden rice into China without obtaining the proper Chinese government approvals and beginning the
experiment 11 days before required permission had been obtained
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Core samples were extracted
from the well two years later, and Pete McGrail and colleagues confirmed that the CO2 had indeed converted into the carbonate mineral ankerite, as the
lab experiments had predicted.
The terabytes of data that will flow
from these
experiments would in turn demand new computational and statistical approaches and new ways to permit thousands of
labs to share information.
And revised analysis of data
from another pair of
experiments, XENON - 10 and XENON - 100, housed at the Gran Sasso underground
lab in Italy, now supports the lightweight signal (arxiv.org/abs/1304.6066).
In the
experiment, researchers will send a beam of neutrinos 800 miles through the Earth —
from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago to Sanford
Lab, where a four - story - high, 70,000 - ton underground detector will catch the particles.