They came up with a promising candidate, tweaked it so it would be absorbed in the blood as a pill and then performed the key experiment testing it in mice to see if it would shrink tumors.
Dr Holmes said the key to the experiment was recreating conditions that were as close as possible to those that really existed at the centre of the planet.
Northeastern University researchers made Nexi the key ingredient of an experiment where subjects were asked to play a Prisoner's Dilemma-style game immediately after a conversation, whether it was with a human or a machine.
His study's design imitated Milgram's, even using the same scripts for the experimenter and suffering learner, but the key difference was that this experiment stopped at 150 volts -- when the learner starts asking to leave.
From there, I began to experiment with my own appearance, integrating a few key preppy details and analyzing their effects on my interactions with others.