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Since 1963, the Pentagon's Vela satellites have been vigilantly circling the earth, using their electronic sensors to detect radiation from surreptitious nuclear explosions outside the U.S. Though these orbital watchdogs have identified only a few suspicious events, they have accidentally uncovered a major astronomical mystery: violent outbursts of energy, in the form of X rays and gamma rays, that are observable only above the earth's atmospheric shield. Such puzzling "highenergy transients," as scientists call them, rarely last more than ten seconds, yet they pack a wallop as great as a billion billion one-megaton H-bombs...
...Kuhl, he has extended those tests to language. The researchers showed infants two films of faces saying "ahh" and "eee," then placed between the two pictures a loudspeaker that could make either sound. The babies invariably looked toward the picture that fit the sound. "This means that babies can detect the relationship between mouth movements and the sounds they hear," says Meltzoff. "Essentially, babies are lip readers...
...party system, so neither of us can afford to take such a great risk that we endanger our administrations. Both the Congress and the Japanese Diet, while maintaining compassion for each other's position, should try to measure the depth of the water and to use radar to detect the existence of icebergs so we will not drown or sink. If we navigate carefully, and if we show strong resolve, no problem is impossible to solve...
...warfare would make it difficult to conclude arms control agreements, Meselson expresses skepticism with the assumptions of this last, commonly held view. "You don't conclude agreements with Russia because you trust the Russians. That's not the way you make these agreements. You do it because you can detect violations," he says. "The converse of that argument is that if only the Russians are innocent of this we can trust them? That's not the way to do treaties. It never was. It never is, It's a phony argument. That's not the point. The point...
Alzheimer's disease would be far easier to treat and detect if doctors knew what caused it. The fact that the disease often occurs in several members of the same family suggests that a genetic factor is at work. This factor "is most prominent in very early onset cases," says University of Minnesota Psychiatrist Leonard Heston...