For coffee lovers constantly on the go or hobbyists wanting to experiment with different brewing methods, the Nomad may be worth considering.

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Now to help facilitate the growth of robot scientists for routine, automated experiment, King and his team are urging that the methods and processes of science be formalized, to remove the ambiguities of natural language and make it easier to reproduce experiments and build the bases of knowledge.

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During the decade-long closure of the Cuypers building, the museum continued to show a portion of its holdings in the modern Philips wing, giving the curators a chance to experiment with mixed methods of presentation and to learn what works and what doesn't.

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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).

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The electronic office might mean a revolution in methods just as remarkable, and a great deal more violent, than that which followed the Prudential's experiment.

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