Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any small boy, the beagles reacted to the initial cigarettes with tears and redness of the eyes, coughing and, sometimes, nausea. After a few weeks, many of them seemed to have developed a taste for tobacco. They wagged their tails and jumped willingly into the box where they were...
Massive Damage. Post-mortems revealed that the lungs of the nonsmokers were entirely healthy. Damage to the smokers' lungs was massive. The lung tissue of the last two to die spontaneously was so completely destroyed that doctors had difficulty evaluating what had happened. In the others, reported Dr. Auerbach...
The giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close...
Chaos & Shock. The difference might seem negligible, but scientists have speculated for years on the fascinating possibility that for every bit of matter, there is an equal and opposite bit of antimatter somewhere in the universe. In the world of antimatter, all particles would be the exact mirror image of...
Science writers outdid themselves reporting that all physics was in a state of chaos and shock. But the real shock came almost a decade ago when Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton challenged the concept of "parity" and...