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Smoke not only gets in your eyes; it is wasted heat. At least since Benjamin Franklin observed the phenomenon, owners of woodburning stoves have been trying to prevent all that expensive warmth from going up the chimney. Now a small Vermont company offers a modern solution: a fireplace-stove that...
So unobtrusively does Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., work on his study of the air's upper miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he...
Cast in Loughborough, England, the five-foot-diameter bell was a gift of President Abbot Lawrence Lowell. It bears the inscription, "In memory of voices that are hushed."
Until that time, some ground-based scientists continue searching for signals that the planets exist, even if they cannot be seen. One, Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz, is currently searching for radio signals from intelligent life forms, using an 84-ft.-diameter radio telescope owned by the University and located...
Such cosmic violence, the scientists postulated, probably results from the stormy relationship between two companion stars that orbit each other. In this scheme, one member is an ordinary star like the sun. The other is a so-called neutron star; this is essentially a dead star that has run out...