experiment
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But David Walmsley, Pandora’s chief digital and technology officer, is less willing to rush to experiment when it comes to critical functions such as human resources.
I had volunteered to stand there for 10 minutes; breathing in dirty air as part of an experiment to understand how air pollution is affecting our bodies and damaging our health.
From BBC
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996 allows activities to assure the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons, including experiments involving fissile material, as long as they don’t result in a nuclear-explosive yield.
The schemes had been a way of "widening motorways on the cheap", King said, but that they were a "failed experiment" which were "not really working on any level".
From BBC
By selectively removing each group in a series of detailed experiments, the researchers uncovered clear differences in how these cells affect tumor growth.
From Science Daily
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