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...than Jaroff, who has been explaining the mysteries of the universe to TIME readers since 1966, when he became the magazine's chief science writer. Later named senior editor of the section, he oversaw projects, including the memorable cover on anthropologist Richard Leakey and a centennial tribute to Albert Einstein, that proved so successful they led to his role as founding editor of Discover magazine. Four years later, he returned to TIME in the newly created position of sciences editor...
Inventor C. Francis Jenkins demonstrated his "long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together...
Barber: Well, maybe not. Medical researchers at Albert Einstein Medical College demonstrated a few years ago that while a moderate drop in blood pressure can reduce heart-attack risk, a large drop can actually increase...
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU COULD ride on a light beam? Albert Einstein posed himself that playful question; his answer was the special theory of relativity, which utterly changed how scientists see time and space. Writers have tried to explain relativity ever since, but Alan Lightman, who teaches physics and writing at M.I.T., has an entirely new approach. EINSTEIN'S DREAMS (Pantheon, $17) is a novel, an impressionistic look at thoughts the great physicist might have had while concocting his theory. We are privy to musings about worlds where time runs backward or branches into diverging streams. The writing, beautifully...
...makes clear in his monumental and deeply thoughtful biography, the Brooklyn-bred and -accented Feynman, who died of cancer in 1990 at 72, really was smarter than just about anyone else. He was a physicist's ( physicist who saw more deeply into the workings of nature than anyone but Einstein and perhaps a handful of others. His greatest achievement was the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which described the behavior of subatomic particles, atoms, light, electricity and magnetism. He also made significant contributions to areas outside his own field, including astrophysics, solid- state physics and computer science -- a rare breadth...