experiment
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The primary objective of the experiment was to establish that an exceptionally thin layer of engineered muscle tissue could generate enough force for swimming.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Myanmar's military held Suu Kyi in almost total seclusion for five years following the February 2021 coup, which ended a tentative decade-long experiment with democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
One cyber security researcher told me he'd been up all night trying to do it as an experiment, but it was proving very difficult.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
They are signing up in part for, here’s that word again, an experiment, but also to be on a TV show; they go in with ideas and assumptions about both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“This experiment of yours will have consequences. I will not lose her like I did Celeste.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The discovery builds on earlier experiments in mice, in which switching off Mitch in muscle tissue increased energy expenditure, improved endurance, and protected the animals from diet-related obesity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Laboratory experiments revealed just how severely their defenses were disrupted.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Weissenborn and Hennig are already conducting additional experiments focused on highly radioactive transuranic phases found in the remaining debris.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
In experiments, the remarkably thin robot successfully swam and turned through a simple underwater maze.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mirror Tech was mostly mentioned in the source notes, but Mari clicked through to the Mirror Tech experiments and found a lot of stuff about botany and bugs.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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
Since the start of the 20th century, when the British Royal Navy experimented with radio jamming and intercepting enemy communications, the vulnerability of radio signals has been exploited in combat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Brands such as Balmain, Levi's and H&M have experimented with the technology, they said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Together, these discoveries reveal that long before modern mammals became dominant, their ancient relatives were already experimenting with an impressive range of ways to survive.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
I went into the recipe expecting exactly that, was delighted to find it delivered and started experimenting with the same trick in soups of my own.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
He picked up his father’s old guitar and began learning to play, experimenting with the strings and teaching himself along the way.
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
“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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