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...strange new pride of the prairie is the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher. After 21 years of painstaking construction, it is scheduled to begin its first trials in the next few weeks. Batavia's planners are convinced that by fall, actual experiments in the giant particle accelerator will lead to important new insights into the basic structure of the atom and, indeed, the fundamental mysteries of the universe...
...could probably not picture your fiftieth reunion any better than we can now. Perhaps you could see the future a bit easier; at least there was no atom bomb then. Could you imagine the television cameras?... Which is all beside the point. Like the Class of '21, that of '71 has learned, if nothing else, that Harvard is bigger than all of us. If we can last, it will. Who knows? 2021 may sneak up on us without our even knowing it. If so, I hope my fiftieth reunion is held in a slightly more attractive building than Dunster House...
...article done by a single department of TIME. Writers and correspondents in Science, Medicine and Religion were proposing separate projects; Behavior had become a significant part of the field as well. Hence, this week's special section represents a collaboration among the four sections. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff (Atom No. 1 in the journalistic molecule) headed the task force. Science Writer Frederic Golden (2), drawing on material gathered by John by Sydnor Vanderschmidt (3), Alan Anderson (4) and John Wilhelm (5), traced the assault on the mysteries of molecular biology. Jere Donovan (6), assisted by Nina Lihn (7), devised...
...unraveling of the DNA double helix was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. It also marked the maturation of a bold new science: molecular biology. Under this probing discipline, man could at last explore?and understand?living things at their most fundamental level: that of their atoms and molecules. Once molecular biology was sardonically defined as "the practice of biochemistry without a license." Now it has become one of science's most active, exciting and productive arenas, taking the limelight (and some...
Most scientists now agree that the universe began with the cataclysmic explosion of an extremely dense primordial atom, and that the billions of star-filled galaxies, including the Milky Way, are still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...