Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives           January 5, 1957 | Vol. 71 | No. 1         Suggest Cancer Preventive Cancer could be drastically reduced if people were not such gluttons and if increasing income and food supply did not overfeed the average person. This way to reduce the second most common cause of death is advocated in an authoritative publication of the Nutrition Foundation by Dr. Harold P. Rusch, University of Wisconsin professor of oncology, which ... (p. 32)

  Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives          February 24, 1934 | Vol. 25 | No. 672         Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink The American public may scoff a bit at fairies, but it would like very much to believe in giants. At least, so it appears from the thin but steady stream of letters received at the Smithsonian Institution. Every month in the year brings these letters. They come from people eager to tell that they have found the bones of... (p. 32)

  Vote on future topic | Search archives      January 1, 1927 | Vol. 11 | No. 299 Three-inch pieces of light A method of cutting off three-inch pieces from a beam of light, like a meat cutter slicing a bologna sausage, though the light moves at 186,000 miles a second, is described by Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence and Dr. J. W. Beams of Yale University. Though light travels so fast that it can encircle the earth seven times in a second, the two physicists made use of a shutter that turned the light on and off with such rapidity that each “pi... (p. 36)

Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives February 1, 1986 | Vol. 129 | No. 5 EPA moves to phase out asbestos goods The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week proposed banning five widely used asbestos products, then phasing out over 10 years all mining, importation and remaining uses for the mineral. A known human carcinogen, asbestos is capable of causing lung cancer and mesothelioma (a cancer of the chest and abdominal lining). In announcing the proposal, EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas said that enacting the law could ultimatel... (p. 32)

Vote on future topic | Search archives          May 4, 1985 | Vol. 127 | No. 18         Soaring pterosaur! Next spring, for the first time in more than 65 million years, the flapping shadow of a giant prehistoric flying reptile will be cast on the ground. No, scientists have not cloned the genes of the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Instead, the Smith­sonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has secured funding to build a full-scale, radio-controlled flying replica of the largest animal ever... (p. 32)

Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives                       March 24, 1951 | Vol. 59 | No. 12         Plant something new The best home gardens this year will include a few of the new vegetable varieties along with the old favorites. Radishes, beets and peppers will be pretty much the same old stand-bys; some of the beans, tomatoes, onions, and squash will be recent developments. In addition, many back-yard and vacant-lot garden... (p. 32)

Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives  February 9, 1935 | Vol. 27 | No. 722 Pharmacologist drinks heavy water in experiment Taking the risk of swallowing ten grams (about third of an ounce or teaspoonful) of “heavy water,” Prof. Klaus Hansen, Oslo University pharmacologist, reported that he had apparently suffered no ill effects after five hours, sufficient to allow assimilation of deuterium-containing water. Nevertheless he was attended by four doctors ready with stomach pumps, heart and respiratory stimulants for ... (p. 32)

Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives       October 17, 1953 | Vol. 64 | No. 16 Make pituitary hormone Synthesis for the first time of a hormone from the pituitary, often called the body’s master gland and famous source of the anti-arthritis ACTH, is announced by Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud and associates of Cornell University Medical College at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York. Word received in Washington, D.C., was heard with amazement by scientists of the Smithsonian Institution... (p. 4)

  Read the full article (PDF) | Vote on future topic | Search archives June 10, 1933 | Vol. 23 | No. 635 American and Dutch physicists reach new low temperature The greatest cold produced and measured by man has now been pushed to within a quarter of a degree of absolute zero, that unattainable heatless point where all motion of the molecules cease and where gas would exert no pressure whatever. Two groups of research workers, one at the University of California and the other in Holland, using novel methods identical in principle, have arrived a... (p. 36)

A “living fossil” gets new family members as more coelacanths turn up. (p. 32)