Many of the nurdles were caught in vast trailing micronets, attached to boats, once designed to study plankton, now part of a long and painstaking experiment to examine the bulk of nurdles and the diminishing bulk of the plankton.
Three weeks later, after five months of painstaking experiment and observations, Chen and Gun-Young Jung find the result they were looking for, bringing the possibility of molecular-sized circuits a small step closer.
His wife, Shoba, a computer scientist who was born in India, told me that sometimes in the middle of an unrelated conversation he would suddenly say, "What did I do wrong?" O'Shea became determined to correct what he called "my fatal mistake," and began a series of painstaking experiments on other species of juvenile deep-sea squid.
In the end it required the combined effort of thousands of the brightest minds in science, several decades of painstaking experiments and a £2.6bn machine in the form of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva.
For years, ethologists have performed painstaking experiments to identify sensory inputs and behavioral outputs of the brain during mating.
But if there is one thing that the painstaking experiments and deep thinking of physics are meant to produce, it is theories that explain both the delights and the details of natural reality at its most fundamental level.
After three years of painstaking experiments using novel gene-editing techniques and sensitive fate mapping to label and track developing cells in fish, the researchers describe how the small flexible bones found at the ends of fins are related to fingers and toes, which are more suitable for life on land.
The Chicago physicists isolated the effects of air pressure on splashing through a painstaking series of experiments involving four different gases and three different liquids.
In a painstaking series of some 10,000 experiments, he determined affinity of 35 different binding sites within the MHC clefts for the 20 naturally occurring amino acids that make up peptides.
It is a painstaking process.
It was a painstaking process.
