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...transmutation took fresh impetus the world over. Unencumbered by electric charges, neutrons as atom-wreckers are like wrestlers slippery with oil. They slide through the electronic field guarding the nucleus, do not swerve until they strike the hard core. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who has an 85-ton magnet to play with on the University of California campus, produced a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly...
Schenectady. At General Electric Co.'s research headquarters, slick-haired Researcher W. E. Ruder showed the junketeers a small permanent magnet made of a new iron alloy containing aluminum, nickel and cobalt, hence called "Alnico." This stuff is so powerfully magnetic that it lifts 60 times its own weight, as was demonstrated when a 55-lb. radio cabinet swung from an Alnico disk of less than a pound. Alnico is being groomed to displace small electromagnets in motors, transformers and loudspeakers, lowering cost and simplifying construction...
...however, General Electric was going to show no discoveries in the actual process of coming to birth. The tour of its laboratories turned out to be a march past a row of closed doors. Some of the tourists privately complained that they were seeing nothing new, that the Alnico magnet was originally a Japanese find, that the little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME...
Long before the danger of war focused the world's attention on Ethiopia, that wild country had served as a magnet for such dissimilar imaginations as those of Evelyn Waugh (Black Mischief) and the late L. M. Nesbitt (HellHole of Creation). While both volumes made the country and its people out in strange, terrifying terms, they emerge as even more formidable in the account of Marcel Griaule, whose description of a French scientific expedition that traveled from the Nile to Addis Ababa has the quality of a nightmare sustained beyond human endurance...
Invaluable to any fly are the pads, two on each of its six feet, which secrete a sticky fluid and enable the fly to traverse vertical surfaces and ceilings. But as a magnet picks up nails, those pads pick up germs which are shed at every step. The appalling trail of potential infection which a restless fly leaves may be shown, the Institute stated, by causing the insect to walk across glass surfaced with sterile gelatin. Soon the footprints are visible under the microscope-outlined by teeming colonies of bacteria...