Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the International Quiet Sun Year (1964-65), U.S. physicists will concentrate 40% of Antarctica's $7,000,000 scientific budget on studies of the upper atmosphere to learn more about cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena that interrupt radio communications. In the past year, other experts have slogged thousands of miles to map the uncharted wasteland, dived deep below the ice to study the metabolism of seals. They have located the world's southernmost volcano, analyzed bacteria left by explorers 50 years ago (the tinned food and biscuits left by Captain Robert Scott...
...electronic gadgets so vital to vehicles in far-out space suffer from some far-out troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
Backed by funds from the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Davis plans to set his 100,000-gal. tank in a mine at least 5,000 ft. deep to protect it from cosmic rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
...genetic lottery decides which of the mother's chromosomes the child inherits. (How Victoria got the defective gene is a mystery. Medical sleuthing has failed to show that she inherited it, so she may have developed it herself-perhaps even from a direct hit on her ovaries by cosmic rays...
...magazine itself leans heavily toward architecture and city planning, containing only one article on the Fine Arts, but it does not suffer from the academic narrowness it criticizes. Actually, it over-reacts against that narrowness. The authors tend toward a pretentiously cosmic viewpoint...