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...orbit that passes over both the poles. The earth will turn below the orbit, but the Mouse will cross one of the poles every 45 minutes, and airplanes can be sent to the polar regions to interview it. On the Mouse will be a receiving apparatus to pick up a signal from the airplane. When the signal arrives, a magnetic tape will start moving and send, in 30 seconds of telemetered code, all the information that the Mouse has gathered in its last trip from pole to pole. Brief messages are desirable, because electric power will have to come from...
...group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by Professor Bruno Rossi, reported that a strange intruder from space had entered one of its cosmic-ray cloud chambers. When it first showed up, it behaved like a rather slow-moving heavy particle. Then it hit a brass plate in the apparatus and set off three powerful electron "cascades" that appeared to have been started by high-energy gamma rays...
...picnic is part of a slim social apparatus that holds together a group whose main focus is on individual work. The full Society meets together once a week for dinner in its quarters in Eliot House M-Entry. There, in a panelled dining room about a large horseshoe table, the twenty-four Junior Fellows, nine Senior Fellows, and guests sit down to a very full, informal meal by candle light--the candles set in silver sticks engraved with the names of the members...
Physicists last week were watching with interest a complicated apparatus parked near a nuclear reactor at Hanford, Wash. Out of it may come a new branch of physics-or a warning that the structure of physics is threatened with collapse...
...apparatus at Hanford was designed to detect the neutrino, a ghostly particle that the physicists invented to make their nuclear equations come out even. When an atom disintegrates, the mass of its fragments plus the mass equivalent of the energy released should equal the mass of the original atom. Often they do not; a small amount of mass disappears as completely as a snowflake in the ocean. This is serious because the physical sciences are based on the principle that mass can turn into energy and vice versa, but neither can just disappear...