Sentence examples for ancient experiment from inspiring English sources

So Roopnarine, the curator of geology at the California Academy of Sciences, and paleobiologist Kenneth Angielczyk, an associate curator at Chicago's Field Museum, painstakingly reconstructed the ancient "experiment" on their own using fossil evidence and computer models.

This situation of disillusionment with the political economy combined with a lack of viable solutions has been around ever since the ancient Greeks experimented with different forms of democracy.

In 2003, he analyzed samples of Siberian permafrost on a hunch that he might find ancient DNA — an experiment he said bemused and amused his colleagues.

(Ranking: 10) Millikan's oil-drop experiment Since ancient times, scientists had studied electricity -- an intangible essence that came from the sky as lightning or could be produced simply by running a brush through your hair.

Combat with throwing nets may have occurred on ancient battlefields, but modern experiments and comparisons with modern fishing nets offer the only clues as to how the gladiatorial net was constructed.

To the best of our knowledge, no previous work on modern pigs had ever been conducted at this laboratory and standard precautions for experiments involving ancient DNA samples were followed (see Appendix).

In Agora (2009), Rachel Weisz as ancient philosopher Hypatia does an experiment on a ship to test relative motion.

It took some time for the scientists to convince a museum to allow them to break off pieces of ancient dinosaur bone for the experiment.

While the ancient Greeks and others conducted experiments, he said, Dr. Gilbert was the first person to methodically tie these observations to theories he proposed and to detail the experiments so that others could reproduce them.

In the story, rationality is sent packing, as a golfing holiday becomes a gathering nightmare when Parkins's casual delving into the site of a community of medieval Knights Templar produces an ancient whistle, with which Parkins experiments.

Jazz musicians have been experimenting with more ancient musical languages since the late 1950s, and the idea really gathered force in the 1970s, when it became clear just how porous jazz was, as a discipline and a trade.