Not exact matches
When the
researchers shined a laser on water,
pairs of photons that emerged from the liquid at the
same time tended to have complementary energies.
Thirty - three
of 40
pairs of gay brothers the
researchers studied inherited the
same version
of this chromosome region — significantly more than the 20
pairs (half) expected by chance (This Week, 24 July 1993).
The
researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21
of the participants» brains while they viewed
pairs of short film clips showing classmates
of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each
pair were the
same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part
of the experiment.
To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics,
researchers asked 547
pairs of identical twins and 214
pairs of same - gender fraternal twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale
of one to seven, with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive.
The
researchers paired a high - ranking dog with a low - ranking pack buddy and set out a bowl
of food, then gave the
same challenge to a
pair of wolves.
The kids then played the game again immediately after, but the
researchers scrambled the
pairs belonging to Mickey and Pooh, so that the kids had to learn a completely new set
of associations with the exact
same objects.
Now, the
same researchers have found a set
of materials which encourage the
pairing of spin - aligned electrons, so that a spin current flows more effectively in the superconducting state than in the non-superconducting (normal) state.
To combine these parameters into one metric, the
researchers asked more than 350 volunteers to compare the
same pairs of images, ranking them on a scale
of 1 (very similar) to 5 (very different).
When
researchers examined information on
pairs of kidneys from the
same donor in which 1 kidney was used but the other was discarded, the kidneys that were used tended to perform well even though they were similar in quality to their partner kidneys that were not used.
After analyzing information on 88,209 donors (176,418 kidneys), the
researchers found that although the discarded kidneys in these
pairs frequently had traits that are typically considered unappealing, the partner kidneys that shared many, if not all
of the
same traits performed well after being used for transplantation despite being used in older recipients with more medical problems.
A team
of researchers bombarded honey bees with floral smells
paired with sugary rewards, some
of which contained the
same levels
of caffeine found in the nectar
of coffee and citrus flowers (pictured).
That
pairing marked another first; never before had two Category 3 storms been in that area at the
same time, according to hurricane
researcher and forecaster Phil Klotzbach
of Colorado State University.
The
researchers found that when the participants downed two tablespoons
of apple cider vinegar before bed with a snack (one ounce
of cheese), they had lower blood sugar levels the next morning, compared to when they ate the
same bedtime snack
paired with two tablespoons
of water.
The
researchers paired up
same - sex student participants and randomly assigned them to complete one
of two 20 - minute interaction tasks that were videotaped for later analysis.