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...years later, the suspicions were dramatically confirmed by the pioneering geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan in Columbia University's famed "Fly Room." Through ingenious crossbreeding experiments with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Morgan and his students were able to map the relative positions of the genes along the insect's four pairs of chromosomes. Still, the gene's physical nature remained as great a mystery as ever. DNA had been discovered in the nuclei of cells by the Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher a few years after Mendel did his work on peas. But since the chromosomes in which...
...miles of Jupiter, Pioneer F will conduct a total of 13 experiments and radio the results back to mission controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. A complex array of detectors, which poke out of the cone-shaped spacecraft like antennae on a monstrous insect, will measure, among other things, magnetic fields, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, cosmic rays, meteoroid density and the intensity of the solar wind (charged atomic particles streaming from...
...even a small show like this demonstrates that Kubin was much more: he was one of the masters of fantasy, a Callot with a richer and, so to speak, post-Freudian imagination. The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host...
Researchers have lately pondered the fact that aquatic organisms (fish, plankton, diatoms, insect larvae) concentrate the dissolved pollutants in their bodies. That fact led Robert Metcalf, head of the University of Illinois' zoology department, to a fascinating idea: Why not use certain insects to sop up the pollutants...
...Counterculture" [Nov. 16]: I am not a food faddist or cultist-and I am revolted by orange dye in my oranges, wax on my cucumbers, preservatives in my "fresh" mushrooms. Give me an apple with some marks on it that show it was just as tempting to an insect as it will be delicious and life-giving to me. But that kind of apple is neither cheap nor easy to buy. I wouldn't care so damned much about these food mutations and experiments if corporate greed were not using them to force the real thing off the market...