The data may help scientists refine their climate models to provide better predictions of future warming.

During the first half of the 20th century scientists refined their methods in the development of extracorporeal circulation so that it could be used in humans.

These international volcano responses enable scientists to test and refine monitoring methods and to increase their application for domestic volcanic crises.

Hair restoration has undergone vast changes as scientists refine techniques of transplanting individual follicles rather than circular plugs, giving the hair a more natural look.

In the future, he suggests, scientists will refine, extend and apply this pre-existing knowledge but will not achieve any more great "revolutions or revelations."

In the observation-and-theory, call-and-response system of investigating nature that scientists have refined over the past 400 years, the dark side of the universe represents a disruption.

As scientists refine the Grace data, they hope to measure snowfall and how much water it contains.

This will allow scientists to refine the mass estimates of the asteroids that are in turn perturbed by Vesta.

Over the years, scientists refined their classification of stars.

But for the moment let me say that the scientists have refined the techniques to dangerous levels.