About five years ago they developed a hypothesis, based on data from experimental animals, that bowel cancer might be prevented by a regular dose of aspirin.

ECONOMIST: An aspirin a day keeps the doctor at bay

In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

The search firm says that an experimental software project designed to gather data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was accidentally rolled out along with its Street View initiative, which uses cameras mounted on cars to film streets and buildings.

ECONOMIST: Privacy and the internet

This morning, Pfizer released the top-line data from its study of tofacitinib, the experimental arthritis drug most Wall Street analysts view as its most important experimental drug.

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Late Sunday, the company released data from a second-stage trial of 411 patients showing its experimental drug AMG-162 was at least as effective at boosting bone density as Fosamax and only has to be given as little as once every six months.

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But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collecting content data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.

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This means that scientists who believed they were publishing data on the efficacy of experimental drugs on one type of cancer were actually using cells from another.

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Scientists in the company's research lab have built an experimental system that captures data, such as a baby's heart rate, temperature and movement, from a series of sensors under the baby's mattress and feeds the information to the parents' PC.

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