An overlooked detail may invalidate the results of some prior experiments with nanoparticles
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 08:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- As any bench scientist will tell you, experimental design can be the very devil. Try as one might, it can be difficult to recognize, much less eliminate, the many extraneous factors that might bias an experiment. And unrecognized confounding factors can invalidate years of work.