Sentences with phrase «of clever experiments»

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

Through a series of clever experiments, Young demonstrated strong evidence for waves.

Gebauer designed a number of clever experiments, Cölfen writes, and based on the finding of stable prenucleation clusters, proposed a new mechanism for calcium carbonate crystallization in a paper in Science in December 2008.

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The researchers did a number of experiments to figure this out, but to me the most clever was a replica of the one situation in which even the most straightforward among us is going to be tempted to humblebrag: The job interview.

In his masterwork Experiments on the Generation of Insects, published in 1668, he described clever experiments that showed maggots could appear only if flies had access to the meat to lay Experiments on the Generation of Insects, published in 1668, he described clever experiments that showed maggots could appear only if flies had access to the meat to lay experiments that showed maggots could appear only if flies had access to the meat to lay their eggs.

They have perfected a variety of clever, ultrasensitive torsion balance experiments and have spent more than 25 years looking for any twisting that would indicate the presence of new forces operating over long distances.

A clever experiment pinpoints the brain region involved in taking the perspective of our future selves or that of others

Yet Zeilinger is doing just that through an elaborate series of experiments, each one cleverer than the last.

A clever experiment preserves the quantum nature of a set of electromagnetic waves even when they're split apart, a stunt that could help make working quantum computers

«It is a strong paper that combined a very clever design wrinkle of a field experiment and a survey experiment to show that the effects of the conversation persists over time,» says Green, co-author of the earlier withdrawn paper.

Perception researchers Edward H. Adelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and J. Anthony Movshon of New York University have done some clever experiments to show that, contrary to naive intuition, this effect does not happen simply by averaging the vectors of the two stripes.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule's mission to the space station includes a clever mouse cell experiment that investigates how years of space flight affects humans

At the time, culturing stem cells was notoriously hard, but after combing through previous lab experiments, another postdoc in Clevers's lab, Toshiro Sato, concocted a mix of growth factors that coaxed the gut stem cells to replicate in a dish.

Pauling's theory was not tested until the group of researchers — comprised of Eric Isaacs, Donald Hamann and Phil Platzman of Bell Labs; Bernardo Barbiellini, now at Northeastern University; Abhay Shukla of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); and Christopher A. Tulk of National Research Council of Canada — devised a clever experiment.

«He's come up with a lot of inventive, clever experimental techniques, and always manages to pick out the experiment that reveals what's really going on,» says David Lee at Texas A&M University in College Station, one of the winners of the 1996 physics Nobel prize for the discovery of superfluidity in another isotope of helium, helium - 3, work done while he was at Cornell.

This is just one of the 10 «beautiful experiments» that science journalist George Johnson explores; others include A. A. Michelson's clever measurement of the speed of light, Ivan Pavlov's observations of dogs drooling in anticipation of food, and (my favorite) Isaac Newton's insertion of a probe behind his eyeball to observe the effect on color perception.

In a clever tabletop experiment, the researchers sent a pulse of light through a single optical fiber doped with erbium, a metal that alters the speed at which light waves move through the fiber.

In 2001 Magdalena Zernicka - Goetz and her colleagues at the Wellcome / Cancer Research UK Institute at the University of Cambridge did a clever experiment in which they dissolved colored dyes in olive oil and then stained each of the cells of a two - celled mouse embryo a different color — one blue and the other pink.

Both are packed with clever experiments, intriguing anecdotes, and a delight in the diversity of animal behavior.

Next, they did a very clever experiment, which was to measure the length of the CAG repeat length in the ataxin - 2 gene in human patients with ALS.

The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists and plasmid lovers and serves as an introduction to plasmids, allowing you to spend less time researching plasmid basic features and spend more time developing the clever experiments and innovative solutions necessary for advancing the field.

- Rachel Sklar, cofounder of TheLi.st and Change The Ratio «Webb's clever and inventive experiment, as well as her success story, will be inspiring and eye - opening for anyone who has ever turned to one of the many popular online dating sites in search of love.»

Webb's clever and inventive experiment, as well as her success story, will be inspiring and eye - opening for anyone who has ever turned to one of the many popular online dating sites in search of love.

[Futurama has] eccentric yet oddly sympathetic characters, scores of clever pop - culture homages, and a unique visual aesthetic that isn't afraid to experiment with a variety of styles both vintage and modern.

In this elegant argument for oversight, the use of «enhanced persons» as a PC euphemism for mutants or human lab experiments is particularly clever.

With this degree of flexibility you are left to your own devices to experiment with anything you want, whether it be large or small - scale structures, block based reproductions of real world landmarks or even an intricate working calculator through clever use of Redstone, which is essential Minecraft's electrical system.

Gradually, Tanaka began transforming these collective experiments into peaceful, clever forms of political protest.

There is only one way to fix type II errors: better data and cleverer experiments (and be careful not put too much weight on the H0 on the basis that you can't reject it — more of this below).

This is the reason why the scientific method has been so successful: instead of very clever men convincing their less clever fellow - men that they should be in charge of things and dictate policy, it requires those very clever men to design an experiment, make a falsifiable claim as to the outcome of the experiment, measure the actual results of the experiment and then publish their results so that other very clever men can check their claims, verify that the results are reproducible and then refine and test the hypothesis with other experiments.

They are also experimenting with acetylated timber (more on Accoya here on TreeHugger) and are even making their own Brettstapel, a technique of building up solid wood panels that are held together with dowels, and have given it a clever name which I hope they trademarked, Dowellam.