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There will almost certainly be efforts to get around the patents of others through slight variations. Says James Watson, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer in the 1950s of the double-helix structure of DNA: "It will be awfully hard to show uniqueness, to prove that one man's microbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Test-Tube Life: Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Further study of radiation data revealed that besides the fifth and sixth ("E" and "F") Saturnian rings observed a few days before in Pioneer photos, there was an outermost and tenuous seventh ring as much as 960,000 km (600,000 miles) from the planet. Other facts disclosed by Pioneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bonanza from a Ringed Planet | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

As the center of a kind of mini-solar system, Jupiter is surrounded by at least 13 moons, and possibly a 14th. The four largest-lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto-are the so-called Galilean moons (named after their discoverer). Like the earth's moon, they are large enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: There's a Ring, By Jupiter | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Piltdown Culprit | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Leakey saves his final chapter, entitled "An End to the Hunting Hypothesis," for a severe critique of those who see innately aggresive tendencies in man. Leakey focuses his argument to refute the likes of American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, Nobel prize-winner Konrad Lorenz, Raymond Dart--discoverer of the first Australopithecene...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Leakey's Ancient Visions | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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