With the TED Prize money, Mitra intends to build a laboratory, most likely in India, where he can test his theories through experiments that supplement schoolwork.
Gregory John Gage calls himself a DIY neuroscientist, and co-founder of Backyard Brains, an organization teaching kids neuroscience through experiments with robotic control of ordinary cockroaches.
Participants explored acidity, salinity, filtration and distillation through experiments made possible with the microscience kits which were sent to 30 developing countries, allowing them to compare results through a website.
In 2007 the Department for the Prevention of Illiteracy (DPI) launched a new initiative that aims to promote innovative activities within the literacy and post-literacy sector through experiments and pilot projects implemented in partnership with local actors, especially associations and NGOs.
Through perceptual experiments, interactive games and illusions, the show is able to, in a sense, "hack your brain, " Silva said.
He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data.
As with the special theory, his thinking had evolved through thought experiments.
Through further experiments in human cells and animal studies the researchers found that a protein called NF-kB lured zinc into the immune cells that responded fastest to fight infection.
The pavilion featured an immersive environment conceived by artists and engineers associated with Bell Labs who collaborated through the initiative Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT).
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It helps us to narrow down our choices, and ends with the design of some small bets that allow us to address the fourth question, What works? by interacting in the real world with actual users through our small experiments.
This is done through wind-tunnel experiments and analysis of controlled burns and naturally occurring wildfires.
As you move through the exhibition, experiments become apparent with new materials, new combinations of materials and new patinations.
Sarah Kite, from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, was critical of the development, saying that many animals were being put through horrific and pointless experiments.
The shut-down is due to conclude in late November 2014. after which the system will be put through its paces and experiments are expected to resume in February or March 2015.
Through a series of experiments with college and graduate students, which are detailed in the paper, Gino and Margolis set out to induce individuals to focus on either promotion or prevention via a series of situational cues.
Proposed to be the missing link to the theory of everything, the particle is breakfast table talk, because the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is searching for it through a series of spectacular experiments.
Her organization connects high school students with underprivileged youths through collaborative hands-on science experiments, with the aim of inspiring all participants to pursue higher education.
Rather, it happens through a series of setbacks and failures and experiments that ultimately lead to something great.
If his venture succeeds, he also gains the power--through profits--to make further investments, further experiments in light of his initial venture.
Through Mr Taylor's prosecutions of doctors who carried out experiments in the camps, of industrialists who employed slave labour, the world heard of the worst depravities of human behaviour.
The rotor is attached to a flagellum, and, in his experiments, Friend measured enough force there to power the motor through the arteries in the brain.
When experiments allow for this by letting subjects learn, they do it through sheer repetition.
Scientists would though still have to go through the usual channels of winning grants from the Research Councils to support their experiments.
In early experiments, the researchers have used boiled eggs, with the Smart-Tool cutting through the egg white, but stopping when it reached the yolk.
Although the country continues to grapple with rising oil prices and experiments with expensive ways to clean up coal, energy consumption can be significantly reduced through energy efficiency.
The team conducted a series of experiments in which known quantities of five such chemicals were mixed with water and passed through a dishwasher, a washing machine, a shower head inside a shower stall or a tap in a bath, all inside a specially designed chamber.
Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.
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