From the April 27, 1935, issue

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING MAKES ELECTRICAL FOUNTAIN

White hot is the shower of metal particles shown on the front cover of this week’s Science News Letter. It was caused by an artificial lightning bolt striking a resistance wire. The photograph was made at the General Electric Company’s high-voltage laboratory at Pittsfield, Mass.

SCIENTIST DISCOVERS WAY TO PREDICT YOUR LIFE SPAN

One of the dreams of science, discovery of a way to predict how long an individual will live—if not claimed by murder or other untimely death—was announced to the National Academy of Sciences.