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This week's Science story explores the vibrations in inner as well as outer space as Comet Kohoutek enters earth's solar system. "This is a sociohysteric happening," notes Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote the story. "Astronomers are running around trying to get their equipment ready for observations, and the rest of us are excited by dramatic notions of what comets mean, especially during times of crisis." A former correspondent and editor for the Associated Press, Golden began writing science stories for TIME in the same way that Czech-born Astronomer Lubos Kohoutek discovered his celestial namesake...
...Regardless of the direction of the comet's travels, its tail is always directed away from the sun. Thus, when Kohoutek reappears in the evening sky after swinging around the sun, its tail -which now trails the comet-will precede it as Kohoutek races away toward the outer reaches of the solar system...
...primary objective of the Harvard and Smithsonian scientists is to establish whether comets are formed in the "regions of outer planets or from some interstellar process," Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, said yesterday...
...itself does not isolate and cannot isolate its participants from the outer world. Therefore the degree of assurance in the guarantees for security should be regarded in the general context of the international situation. It is obvious that the aggravation of international tension, the growing danger of a nuclear war and aggressive actions will constitute threats for international security...
...They soon determined that it was hidden in a region filed the pleural arch near the base of the flea's hind legs. In flying insects, the pleural arch is the site of the wing-hinge ligaments, the place where the wings are attached to the exoskeleton, hard outer covering. In fleas, as well as in dragonflies, locusts and certain other insects, the arch serves another purpose: as a repository for an extraordinary elastic-like clump of protein called resilin that can be stretched, and contracted back to its original shape, faster than any known rubber...