Sure, there have been experiments in interactive TV -- gadgets like WebTV and modern game consoles are connected devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku and TiVo add connected components -- but most TVs in the US remain blissfully ignorant of the internet.
There have already been small experiments across China, but Beijing is becoming more ambitious.
So far experiments have been done on E. coli bacterial cells, Tobacco Mosaic Virus cells, as well as human and hamster cells.
Over the years, many experiments have been done to test the link.
"This might be significant, but experiments have been done in this area, and they have not been successful, " he told BBC News Online.
Experiments have been conducted with wind power for decades, but never has such a large wind farm been built to provide commercial power.
Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.
Other experiments have been too brief to produce firm conclusions.
Mr. BRYAN CULLEN (Scientist, Duke University): There have been a number of experiments done in rodents, in particular in a mice, that have successfully shown that RNA interference does work at the whole organism level.
What fairness is will differ among different people but endless experiments have been done that show that people will deliberately punish those they think are being unfair: to the point that they will make themselves worse off in order to do that punishing.
So far the experiments that have been done haven't really hit the mark yet, but it's good that they are developing the ideas.
Fittingly, its greatest rulers have been as notable for their spiritual experiments as for their political ones.
They have been following this work and I have to tell them I cannot do the experiments.
Doing conclusive experiments on people would have been out of the question, and trying to substitute laboratory animals was felt to be unreliable.
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.
Most gaming experiments dealing with young children have been focused on improving educational techniques, something with immediate positive benefits to the children.
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In some cases, especially where experiments began early (states have been allowed for almost a decade to seek waivers from federal welfare requirements), the lightening of the load has been dramatic.
Dr Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC that the idea had been discussed repeatedly but "experiments have never come close to suggesting it might work in humans".
Half a billion dollars meant for science experiments on board the station have already been siphoned off for construction instead.
But as with previous experiments in which random members of the public have been asked to play prison guard or interrogator, Dr Fast's result suggests that many quite ordinary people will succumb to bad behaviour if the circumstances are right.
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Details of these predicted variations have been confirmed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and other experiments, and will be further tested by the Planck satellite, data from which is currently under analysis.
Recent experiments by Dr Gauthier's group and others have, however, been encouraging.
GNA. Moreover, the data from these experiments had not been fully analysed, and so they could not have yielded the results Dr Pusztai claimed, even if he had merely got the name of the lectin wrong.
There have been some unexpected responses, for instance markedly different phytoplankton communities and total biomass resulted from two iron addition experiments conducted a year apart at the same site in the north west Pacific Ocean.
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