The researchers will monitor the growth of this vegetation around newly formed thermokarst features and use experimental field plots to test how conditions mimicking such features affect which species will thrive.

ECONOMIST: Global warming and the permafrost

Sanofi could save money by chopping heads and still make use of experimental drugs for melanoma, kidney transplants and leg clots that Bristol is developing.

FORBES: Why Bristol And Sanofi Shouldn't Merge

Chief Executive Fredric Price says that if he can find a partner for a second experimental drug, for use in open-heart surgery, the company could be close to break-even for the fourth quarter of 2004.

FORBES: BioMarin Gets Ready To Bloom

Thirteen of the 23 Experimental Law Variations (ELVs) in use in the southern hemisphere will be introduced.

BBC: Law changes trial gets go-ahead

Within the next few weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue its regulations surrounding the "experimental permits" that private spacecraft owners will use to test their rockets.

FORBES: To Infinity And Beyond

If an experimental product just didn't feel right to use, or didn't look good, Jobs would kill it off.

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The idea was that children could use special Lego components to build their own experimental instruments, which would work as MIDI controllers.

ENGADGET: Music Thing: Musical instruments made of Lego

The firm plans to use some of the smallpox proceeds to help develop its experimental vaccines for West Nile virus and dengue fever.

FORBES: Biotechs See Dollar Signs In War

It seems odd having two spinners here at all but, being in the County Championship Second Division, Panesar's Northants do not use the same ball as the First Division or the national team do, rather the experimental Tiflex.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column