English Electric Ltd. is putting into production a computor based on a design of the National Physical Laboratory.

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So did Wes Huntress, who runs the Carnegie Institutions Geo Physical Laboratory.

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Packet switching got its name thanks to late British scientist Donald Davies who was creating a network that used this technique at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

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By allowing students to practice their experiments in a virtual lab setting, LearnSmart Labs allows students and instructors to maximize the valuable time spent in the physical laboratory.

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Jerrold Zacharias at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a practical atomic clock around the same time that Louis Essen and John Parry established the first atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west of London.

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For online and blended courses, LearnSmart Labs offers the closest thing available to an actual physical laboratory experience, enabling students to put the concepts they have learned in class to the virtual test without requiring access to a brick-and-mortar lab.

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Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.

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The lead principal investigator for the project is Adam Arkin, director of the physical biosciences division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany, they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation.

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Alexei Abrikosov, who now works at the Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, and Vitaly Ginzburg of the Lebedev Physical Institute, in Moscow, were responsible for discovering how type-II superconductors work (it is all down to the behaviour of their electrons).

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