By comparing rates of seed formation during the different phases of the experiments, the researchers have been able to put a figure on cosmic rays' contribution to the process.

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In 1944, most of the world went to an official gold standard system after various unsuccessful experiments during the 1930s.

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Most people would answer this question with an adamant no, but Milgram conducted a series of obedience experiments during the 1960s that demonstrated surprising results.

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Crews conduct a variety of science experiments and perform station maintenance during their six-month stay on the outpost.

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In separate experiments, the two flavonoids were added to lung-cell cultures before, during and after infection with H5N1, and tested on H5N1-infected cells treated with zanamivir (brand name Relenza), an antiviral drug prescribed to flu patients.

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She cited Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " with its frozen polar wastes and specters of "Nightmare Life-in-Death, " which as an 8-year-old child she had heard the poet recite in her father's parlor, and she made several dark allusions to the alchemical experiments of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa, two Medieval figures with whom Percy had become obsessed during his studies at Oxford.

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During the trip, Mohamed and a two-girl team from Troy, Michigan, were announced as global winners whose experiments will be taken to the International Space Station.

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