nudge

These experiments revealed that both C3 and C4 plants contain the necessary genes and transcription factors required for the superior C4 photosynthesis process -- a promising discovery for scientists hoping to nudge C3 plants to use C4 photosynthesis.

The switchboard at the Lime Grove studios was jammed with viewers ringing in to find out more, and it gave the BBC the nudge to set up the Natural History Unit in Bristol in 1957.

I've clung to the promise of democracy in the hope that small changes could nudge us there.

“We used Mother Earth's gravity to nudge us to the Moon. It took us weeks and a lot of resourceful planning. Isro has mastered this and done it successfully so many times.”

That can nudge them over the edge.