All Stories by Science News
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Skeleton Search
Visit the e-Skeletons Project to take a close-up tour of the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon. Visitors can compare selected bones of one species to those of another and can download plug-ins to view skeletons in 3D movies and images. Go to: http://www.eSkeletons.org/
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“Force from empty space drives a machine” cites the attraction between a gold plate and a ball as proof of vacuum energy and the Casimir force, but isn’t it possible that science has jumped the gun? There may be other causes of this behavior, such as the photoelectric effect producing static electricity, chemical-bonding forces, magnetism, […]
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From the February 7, 1931, issue
LITTLE WATERWHEEL DOES BIG POWER JOB Fortunate are those countries that have small rivers falling rapidly, rather than huge, slow-moving streams. Electricity can be generated for these nations easily and cheaply. To make electricity for Korea from the 2,000-foot fall of a mountain stream will be the life work of the Voith impulse water wheel […]
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Liquid Crystal
Brilliantly colored images of liquid crystals highlight the Web site of Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute. The site also features research overviews, news and conference links, and other resources devoted to the study and application of liquid crystals. Go to: http://www.lci.kent.edu/
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From the January 31, 1931, issue
ROBBER FLY MASQUERADES IN BUMBLEBEE’S CLOTHING The villainous-looking hexapod that glares at you from the cover of this week’s SCIENCE NEWS LETTER is as bad a citizen as he looks. He is a robber fly, who should by rights be called an assassin fly, for his practice is to pounce upon other insects in the […]
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Amateur Scientist
The Web site of the Society for Amateur Scientists offers discussion forums, projects, and resources for people interested in taking part “in scientific adventures of all kinds.” Go to: http://earth.thesphere.com/sas/ or http://www.sas.org/
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From the January 17, 1931, issue
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE IN STEEL AND STEAM Things mechanical offer the photographer an unlimited field for the exercise of his talents, and the locomotive–romantic and symbolical as it can be made–is especially attractive to him. On the front cover of this week’s SCIENCE NEWS LETTER, Photographer Rittase of Philadelphia has chosen the Boardwalk Flyer of […]
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Since pandas produce twins “roughly half the time” and “the mother routinely selects one, and the other dies in a few days,” it seems that there is an opportunity to rear the discarded one experimentally (away from the mother). Has this been tried? It seems a waste to let one of the twins perish. Rhodes […]
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If the studies done by Lene V. Hau and by Ronald Walsworth and Mikhail Lukin are correct, then are we saying that our current interpretation of space and time can be misinterpreted? For example, if light passes through cold sodium gas, the speed of light can be greatly slowed. If this is so, then can […]
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What is the etymology of Yanomami? Unless someone pulled my leg, I was told that it was Yanomamo originally. If so, then it may be that the tribe was named by outsiders, much like Native Americans were called Indians by Columbus and others. Anibal José da Silva Houston, Texas The Yanomamo are the most numerous […]
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Eye above the Timberline
The Tundra-Cam, operated by the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, sits at an elevation of 11,600 feet near the U.S. Continental Divide. Visitors to the Web site can operate the remotely controlled webcam, panning across the mountainous landscape and zooming in on particular features of interest. Go to: http://tundracam.colorado.edu
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From the January 24, 1931, issue
EINSTEIN DISCUSSES REVOLUTION HE CAUSED IN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT – By Dr. Albert Einstein From far away I have come to you, but not to strangers. I have come among men who for many years have been true comrades with me in my labors. You, my honored Dr. Michelson, began with this work when I was […]
