There is currently no way of knowing how each shape will behave, except by experiment.
But experiment by experiment, these pioneers are learning to find their way around this new business.
Science, they say, makes predictions that are then confirmed by experiment.
Given the reasonable doubt raised by the experiment, the charges against Lewis were soon dropped.
Volunteer Gabriel Dean said he was far more worried about another future threat forecast by the experiment, that one day criminals might be able to replicate DNA and place some at the scene of a crime.
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Even before its existence was at last tentatively suggested by an experiment this week, many people had heard of the Higgs boson, the mysterious manifestation of the field that causes matter to have mass, according to a theory minted in 1964.
In the first, they replicated the earlier experiment by having participants play a Japanese game similar to Operation.
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That's one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week.
She began her experiment by taking two populations of the same virus and changing their environments in identical ways.
What's more, he never managed to put words into sentences, and that was the criterion by which the experiment was to be judged a success.
Experiment by watching five different documentaries, all on completely different subjects.
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Some recent failures, such as an experiment by Baltimore's school board, have added to the conviction that private provision of state-financed education is a bad idea.
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One experiment by University of Toronto cancer researcher Robert Kerbel mimicked treating early-stage breast cancer with Pfizer's kidney cancer drug Sutent for short periods of time and then stopping.
This year, the researchers plan to expand the experiment by recruiting more participants over a larger area of Iowa, in order to see if they get better prediction data.
Total outages often occurred early in the iPhone era, and though service has improved dramatically since then, an experiment by a startup suggests that big crowds still degrade mobile data service dramatically.
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An experiment by University of Exeter researchers found that workers who were allowed to "enrich" their work space with their own choice of plants and pictures worked faster and with more accuracy.
To demonstrate this phenomenon, the researchers designed a classic two-by-two experiment in which students imagined choosing courses for the following semester and were told them that the courses would (or would not) count towards their major so that it was an important (or unimportant) decision.
Therefore the amount of mtDNA actually recoverable by PCR in this experiment may well have been minimal.
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With geoengineering the dangers are more likely to be caused by large-scale deployment than by any individual scientific experiment.
In an experiment popularized by the book of the same name, volunteers were told to keep track of how many times a basketball was passed between players.
The irony of this outburst was not lost on the Iraqi Kurds, who were long shunned by Turkey because their experiment with self-rule seemed a threat to Turkish unity.
But it was not regarded as a great success by the players - and the experiment was dropped after one season after no decisions made by on-field umpires were reversed.
Some support for this approach of first establishing a belief and then challenging it can be found in a recently conducted experiment performed by Jack Soll and Rick Larrick.
The scanning equipment weighed some 80kg and, for the most part, was being transported to the experiment sites by camel - a fitting mode of transport for such state-of-the-art kit.
If you are thinking about how to better run a global marketing organization, you must take three minutes and read about an experiment run by Loren Carpenter back in 1991.
Marc Lievremont's reign in charge of Les Bleus, which began with a 27-6 win at Murrayfield two years ago, has been characterised by his willingness to experiment with his team selection.
In a large-scale experiment overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration , UPS is installing a computer navigation system on all 107 of its Boeing 757s and 767s that allows pilots to "see" other jets without radar.
Or how about the experiment suggested by Sir Peter Newsam, a former head of London University's Institute of Education, for initiative-free zones, where head teachers are left to run schools without constant meddling from local authorities and ministers?
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