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JAMES WATSON, co-discoverer of DNA'S STRUCTURE, is hard at work on an autobiography, and the science world expects it to be every bit as frank and irreverent as The Double Helix, his acclaimed account of his Nobel- prizewinning work. In the sequel, there may be some choice words about Bernadine Healy, his former boss at the National Institutes of Health. Disputes between the two helped lead to Watson's resignation as head of the mammoth project to map the human genome...
...hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going to strike gold -- Swedish gold," the kind that bears the likeness of Alfred Bernhard Nobel...
Finding the top is the sort of discovery of which Nobel dreams are made, and the pressure to be first has become particularly intense now that the Collider Detector has a competitor on its tail, a rival Fermilab detector that began generating its own data last May. The sense of urgency has intensified arguments among the Collider Detector's 400 experimentalists over how to interpret the whispery tracks that appeared in October inside the device, a conglomeration of electronics and steel that stands 3 1/2 stories tall and weighs 4,500 tons. Through its hollow center, protons and antiprotons, accelerated...
...Pope's speech was the latest episode in the age-old struggle to reconcile science and religion. The year's most intriguing book about God was produced not by theologians but by 60 world-class scientists, 24 Nobel prizewinners among them. Cosmos, Bios, Theos gives their thoughts on the Deity and the origin of the universe and of life on earth. For instance, the co- editor, Yale physicist Henry Margenau, concludes that there is "only one convincing answer" for the intricate laws that exist in nature: creation by an omnipotent, omniscient God. While many scientists are skeptics or are still...
...Nobel lecture, Walcott insists that the "Caribbean is looked at [as being] illegitimate, rootless, mongrelized.... No people. Fragments and echoes of real people, unoriginal and broken...