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...Their prodigious memories can be probed with split-second precision; they can race through reams of complex equations with astonishing agility. Their swift skill is made possible by a battery of relatively simple devices, transistors that can turn an electric current off and on in as little as a billionth of a second...
Later verified by experiment, the so-called Josephson effect has been widely used to construct extremely sensitive laboratory measuring devices, including a magnetometer that can detect fluctuations in a magnetic field only one five-billionth as strong as the earth's. But IBM scientists found a more practical use. They knew that they could produce a voltage drop across a Josephson junction by applying a weak magnetic field; generating that field would require only a fraction of the energy required to switch a transistor. Furthermore, the presence or absence of that voltage across a Josephson junction could be used...
...aggression and other behavioral characteristics. At the Institute for Cell Chemistry, Feodor Lynen won a Nobel Prize for his work on fat metabolism. Another Nobel Prize went to Manfred Eigen of the Institute of Physical Chemistry for his success in measuring chemical reactions that last no more than a billionth of a second. More recently the society has branched into less familiar terrain. Under the direction of Physicist Carl Friednch von Weizsäcker, it has set up the new Institute for the Study of Life in the Technological-Scientific World. Its mission is to investigate pressing contemporary issues including...
Earlier researchers have intensively studied the prostaglandins because of indications that even as little as a billionth of an ounce of the hormones could have major effects on many different body processes...
During spring training, while other baseball announcers were playing the usual guessing game about the outcome of the season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated...