And, for those space-cadets who still dream of a manned mission to the planet, there is also the Mars radiation environment experiment.

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The radiation astronauts would face on a round trip would be comparable to getting an abdominal CT scan "about once every five days, " said Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist for the NASA-led Martian Radiation Environment Experiment.

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To further study the reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab.

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By laying these boundaries out very clearly a leader will help their employees operate more effectively while giving room for employees to branch out and experiment in a safe environment.

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To prove the experiment would work in an isolated environment, he set up another "hole in the wall" computer in a village 300 miles away.

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This alternate camera will also show the satellite's telemetry rolling across the screen for another App, and there is a simple experiment also to sense the magnetic environment in space using the Nexus' own onboard magnetometer.

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But they go further: what is happening is not just an attempt to meet road costs, or even to balance the rival costs of road and rail, but an overt experiment in putting a money price on the environment.

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He said that in addition, rats kept in ordinary laboratory cages before being put into their "enhanced" environment might be considered understimulated prior to the experiment - and therefore not necessarily ideal for comparison with humans.

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In short, it was just about the perfect environment to conduct a small, high-speed networking experiment.

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The explanation appears to be that the beneficial changes that happened early in the experiment, when the viruses were least well-suited to their environment, had bigger effects than those that happened later, when they were well adapted.

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The Global Experiment explores the chemistry of water and the importance of water in the environment.

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An initial experiment suggested that 20% of it vanished within 18 days in a dump-like environment.

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