experiment
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With the proof-of-principle experiment successfully completed, the researchers are now working toward a system that could eventually be used outside the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The experiment relied on SPDC, but the researchers say the underlying approach could also work with other nonlinear optical techniques, including four-wave mixing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
As with any scientific experiment, there had to be painstaking observations and measurements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Following his recovery, Knight decided to conduct an experiment with two disposable barbecues.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“You know, everyone’s curious why Mirror Tech wanted to experiment on you in the first place.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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To determine whether C3 in the bloodstream also affected immunotherapy, the team conducted experiments in mice that allowed them to distinguish between C3 from different sources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The study—which documents experiments that concluded about a year ago—arrives at a moment of heightened anxiety regarding danger posed by increasingly powerful AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
These experiments led to numerous advances, including the establishment of the first marine laboratory in the Indian Ocean, on the southwestern coast of Ceylon, and confirmation of the theory that pearls are formed from parasites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"By mapping this hidden dimension of the quark-gluon plasma, we hope to turn non-inertial quantum effects into signatures that experiments can actually measure."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
They were followed by John Theophilus Desaguliers, who performed the role of curator of experiments from 1716 to 1743.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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ME: Do you think if location and money weren’t a factor you would have still worked with hardware, or would you have experimented more?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
In 2017, Danavle and her husband experimented with hydroponic strawberry farming.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
They have experimented with juice from jagua, a fruit found in Central and South America, and petals from the butterfly pea flower in Southeast Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
But one of those summers I experimented with rodeo.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Since his career began, Kelly had been pushing cine-dance forward, directing his first sequence and experimenting with double exposure in the “Alter Ego” dance for the 1944 film “Cover Girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Gillian Anderson was once a young person experimenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But cosplayers can also embody everything from fast food brands, internet browsers and memes to intangible ideas like gravity or hunger, while also experimenting with gender.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
When that proved too difficult, he switched to experimenting with single-celled organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Nah,” she said, turning her attention back to V, who was experimenting with her fingers on different keys.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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