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...physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding on resin and felt in the water purifying system...
...fierce radiation in the reactor appeared to bother the bacteria hardly at all. When the reactor was shut down but still highly radioactive, they multiplied fast. Even when it was running full blast, they held their own. Since they normally divide every 20 minutes or so, this meant that radiation was killing only about as many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen...
...Moscow time, the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon. It is the first time in history that a cosmic flight has been made from the earth to another celestial body." The Soviet moon rocket, with a last-stage weight of 3,342 Ibs., treated against bacteria so as not to contaminate the surface of the moon, carried red pennants and a hammer-and-sickle emblem inscribed "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...bloodstream dropped steadily until 1947, they found. Since then, the rate has stayed low or dropped further for deaths caused by pneumococci and the dreaded streptococci-the organisms most vulnerable to sulfas and antibiotics. But in these twelve years there has been an absolute increase in deaths from other bacteria...
...iron, carbon, silver, oil, fat, starch or mammalian cells on a glass slide between the electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle promptly turned so that its long axis lay along the lines of force. Groups lined up Indian-file, like iron scraps between magnetic poles. Microorganisms such as bacteria or protozoa were forced to travel in similar paths; they resumed swimming normally at random only when the power was turned...