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PEOPLE IN PARTS OF NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE noticed the loud sonic booms and strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington...
Collectively, this new generation of ground-based instruments will open an extraordinary new window on the cosmos. "What we can look forward to," says Caltech astronomer Maarten Schmidt, "is the biggest gain in telescope power in the past 50, maybe even 100 years." It should bring into focus the most distant quasars yet and even planets orbiting other stars...
After initial skepticism, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to take SIR photos in 1984 during two passes over southern Arabia by the Challenger space shuttle. Experts found faint white lines marking hundreds of kilometers of long-abandoned caravan routes, some running underneath sand dunes that over the centuries had grown 183 m (600 ft.) high...
...Harkin futures at just 8 cents. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA has been operating a futures market in presidential prospects for students, faculty and staff. In the winner-take-all gamble, top share price is $1; the average investment is $15. Traders at about 20 other college campuses, including UCLA, Caltech, Northwestern and the University of Virginia, will soon be able to play. So far, the market seems to be a better barometer than opinion polls. In 1988, the day before the election, Bush shares were trading 8 percentage points higher than DukakisU--almost exactly his victory margin in the popular...
...Caltech machine involved travel through a wormhole, a bizarre object that physicists believe might exist at the core of a black hole. Under the infinite density and gravity at the black hole's center, space could be so profoundly warped that a tunnel would form, far narrower than a subatomic particle, that might reach to some distant part of the universe. Anyone or anything entering the tunnel would appear instantly at the other end and, under special circumstances, would essentially travel into the past...