In one lab experiment, researchers paired volunteers who had never met and had them take turns discussing an interesting personal event that occurred in the past month.

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Like the mice in the lab experiment, managers and employees were anxious about the consequences of failure and felt it more prudent to continue doing what they had always done.

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The city also became a lab experiment in planning as the central government sought to speed urbanization.

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"It was what appeared to be an experiment in a science lab which caused a ball of flame, " he said.

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Duke University isn't deterred by our behavior -- if anything, it just took oversharing literally by connecting two rats' minds in an experiment, first in a lab and ultimately online.

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In one experiment that Deisseroth shows to lab visitors, a pulse of light to the right side of a mouse's motor cortex makes the animal run in circles to the left.

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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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However, the use of embryonic stem cells is controversial because opponents argue that all embryos, whether created in the lab or not, are fully fledged humans, and as such it is morally wrong to experiment on them.

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Corrine Moss-Racusin and her fellow researchers conducted an experiment in which they gave student applications to science professors at a number of universities to evaluate for a lab manager position.

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