Sentences with phrase «than a science experiment»

Since genetics can be sometimes more of a crap shoot than a science experiment, a professional dog breeder will want to have as many chances as possible to meet his goals.

Not exact matches

If life were a social - sciences experiment, Slack's workforce, at fewer than 250 employees, would be deemed too small to represent a statistically significant sample.

Modern safety precautions also mean that there is less for the student to do and more for the teacher, meaning that much of science is observed demonstrations rather than hands - on experimenting.

We did visit a local school here and saw their «science fair» but it seemed to consist of rather basic projects with lots of printouts from the Internet and CD encyclopedias, with no research or experiments or anything other than a display that looked nice.

Here are more than twenty great simple science experiments with the theme of Spring.

More than 40 years after those early experiments, Jackson has risen to become the associate dean for clinical research and director of Ohio State University (OSU) Medical Center's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS).

The volunteer organizers of the 22 April 2017 march, an ambitious experiment in global science advocacy, were eager to learn all they could about the more than 1 million people who had participated.

Like others have before me, I realised that I preferred writing about science than doing experiments at the bench.

More than 1,000 scientists work on the $ 1 - billion LIGO experiment, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

She didn't know how to talk to her adviser about anything other than scientific experiments, and even when she was talking about science she didn't think she was communicating well.

All told, the upgrades bring the experiment's total cost to more than $ 1 billion, most of it paid by the National Science Foundation.

Any researcher or graduate student who has ever performed a lab experiment knows that achieving an accurate, reproducible result is often less of a science and more of an art — and certainly much more complex than some scant «methods» sections would lead one to believe.

«This is reproducing one of the all - time great science experiments — and you do it yourself, and you do it much better than it's ever been done by anyone.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

Amy Lark, an assistant professor of science education at Michigan Technological University, says Avida - ED is a more user - friendly program than Avida, a research platform for conducting and analyzing experiments with self - replicating and evolving computer programs.

It boasts more Nobel prizes per million people than any other rich nation; it has two home - grown pharmaceutical giants, Roche and Novartis; and it is home to the world's biggest science experiment at CERN.

Many of the experiments carried out by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's Curiosity rover were painstakingly planned by NASA scientists more than a decade ago.

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

In a series of experiments described in the September 24 issue of Science, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., registered differences in the passage of time between two high - precision optical atomic clocks when one was elevated by just a third of a meter or when one was set in motion at speeds of less than 10 meters per second.

The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured the scene on June 27, 2013, with the orbiter rolled for an eastward - looking angle rather than straight downward.

That is a victory for science and medicine alike: The experiments teach us more about the genetics of disease transmission than ever before.

It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

«Holger has ruled out chameleons that interact with normal matter more strongly than gravity, but he is now pushing his experiment into areas where chameleons interact on the same scale as gravity, where they are more likely to exist,» Khoury, co-author of the study published Friday in the journal Science, said in the statement.

MRO's HiRISE camera (short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) can distinguish Martian objects as small as a dinner table, allowing researchers to study the planet's surface features more completely than ever before.

The path to creating sustainable fusion energy as a clean, abundant and affordable source of electric energy has been filled with «aha moments» that have led to a point in history when the international fusion experiment, ITER, is poised to produce more fusion energy than it uses when it is completed in 15 to 20 years, said Ed Synakowski, associate director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

One of my biggest pet peeves is finding a container of food in the back of the fridge and realizing that the contents resemble a science experiment more than they do food.

This week a judge in the U.K. ordered Northumbria University to pay a $ 502,000 fine for a scary incident that occurred at the school in the spring of 2015: During a sports science experiment gone wrong, two students overdosed on caffeine after they were accidently given a dose 100 times stronger than researchers intended.

One of the websites I was reading suggested wearing gloves, goggles, and a mask while chopping, dicing and cooking these things, so I looked more like I was conducting a science experiment than cooking supper.

Let's actually use our classrooms to contribute to science research, appropriate to the age and experiences of our students, rather than replicating simplified experiments.

Whats better than a hands - on science experiment?

She is the author of more than 30 books, each packed with simple hands - on experiments for «teaching» science concepts to elementary and middle school students.

Bottom Line: For the latest in classroom - friendly scientific experiments and learning tools, look no further than Science Buddies.

Dr. Alfred Balitzer, the first Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Political Science at SUA, suggested in an interview that there is enhanced political freedom for schools to experiment with education in the United States, but he felt that Dr. Ikeda has more reasons than that for his expectations of SUA.

The technology for autonomous driving is already here The Mercedes - Benz F 015 is actually more like a rolling proof of concept than a research vehicle for autonomous driving, and it rumbles around like a science experiment instead of a car.

In an age where ideas like gene editing and universal basic income are becoming the stuff of popular culture rather than sci - fi, Bul's biotechnological experiments with the ways that science informs and often prescribes ideology seem especially relevant today.

[Response: Experiments and observations in climate science are far less controlled than the neutrino experiment, and yet you think that they somehow rise to the level of unchallengeable?

Unfortunately this thread has wasted a lot of time (and hot air) looking for «The single Null Hypothesis for climate science» (there is no such thing — just a series of alternatives, each with its null), rather than looking at the way Climate «Science» has treated the null in its past experiments (mostly «Null what?&science» (there is no such thing — just a series of alternatives, each with its null), rather than looking at the way Climate «Science» has treated the null in its past experiments (mostly «Null what?&Science» has treated the null in its past experiments (mostly «Null what?»)

Rewriting the science won't make the experiment any more successful for Lynas than it was for Ehrlich.

... Science is facing a «reproducibility crisis» where more than two - thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests.

I don't know how to do this but there must be some enterprising academics out there who can find ways to substantiate some of the model assumptions with real data rather than continuing to tweak computer models to «find» the right formulas I would rather we did real science and found the parameters by experiment.

He refers to the nuclear debate as»... a natural experiment in the politicization of science,» and optimistically bets that anti-nuclear liberals will be more open minded and respectful of the scientific evidence than conservatives.

[edit]-RRB- Randerson really believes that his little experiment with blog science is no less of a failure than blog science in general, he only needs to look at his link to the Chinese weather station article.

And we're somehow supposed to believe that CO2 can heat the Earth because «science shows by experiment»..., or some out of context laws brought into «scientific truth», so CO2 «well mixed by Brownian motion», and though heavier than air in real life, «it accumulates into a thick blanket for hundreds and thousands of years reflecting thermal IR back at us»..

Last week, for instance, brought a fresh spate of news that suggest more people are treating Bitcoin as a serious form of money rather than a science fiction experiment.

Despite looking more like a science experiment than a coffee maker, this clever Gravity design (H43xW24xD23cm) helps brew a very smooth blend without the bitterness often associated with espresso coffee.