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experiment

[ik-sper-uh-muhnt, ek-sper-uh-ment] / ɪkˈspɛr ə mənt, ɛkˈspɛr əˌmɛnt /




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Another experiment fits bees into cartridges that are plugged into handheld devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Barontini's experiment takes that connection further by demonstrating how changes in entropy can provide an operational measure of time inside a controlled quantum system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

On the morning of the experiment, participants arrived with dental plaque that had accumulated overnight.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Having got his chance in this series, initially as number five before the Nic Maddinson experiment was cut short after two Tests, the Middlesbrough-born Renshaw looks like being a fixture for this winter and beyond.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Yes. It’s about time for Nathan to go back to Phoenix. I can finish his science experiment, do the measurements, and send it to him,” Nali said.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The mouse experiments demonstrated protection against tissue damage, but they did not establish that the strategy prevents colorectal cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

"Whenever we tried the experiments we normally use to study retrons, they would fail, so we kept having to think of new ways to figure out how these retrons work."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

"Synthetic sensors and switches have many possible applications, both in treating disease and in designing experiments to better understand how certain diseases operate."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The alternative approach finally revealed a trace amount of single-stranded DNA that earlier experiments had missed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 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

We’ve experimented with retirement simulations of our own, but we struggle to get the projected probability of success below 90%, much less find a realistic path toward exhausting our assets over the next 30 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

And McDonald’s has experimented with this vision before.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The team also experimented with a simpler approach that involved burning birch bark near a solid surface, such as a stone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Pioneer bought additional tooling and experimented with changes in temperature and curing times to better understand and fix the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

They experimented with resin, heating it by the fire, letting it boil and thicken, until it became an indestructible glue.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Google has been experimenting with different ad formats within AI surfaces, Flax told MarketWatch, and he believes the company will be able to effectively monetize those conversational queries in the long term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

As early as the 19th century, vintners began experimenting with dealcoholized wine using a process known as vacuum distillation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Okanagan Specialty Fruits is already experimenting with cameras from a Canadian firm called Vivid Machines.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The lawsuit carries constitutional implications for other places around the U.S. experimenting with second-home taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

But observing nature, it turned out, was very different from experimenting with nature.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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