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...sees casually clothed men and women aged 18 to 80 greeting each other with a joke or two. The doors to offices are nearly all open, with the busy researcher eager to take a break from the rigors of theoretical galactic dynamics analysis to chat with a fellow physicist or employee...
...something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost a dress rehearsal for an earthquake on the Hayward fault in the East...
Hagstrum's proposal and some possible evidence of such double whammies on other planets and moons intrigued scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Using a supercomputer, a Sandia team, headed by physicist Mark Boslough has been simulating impact effects, seeking to determine the size and velocity of an asteroid necessary to generate enough heat to cause volcanic outpourings at the antipode...
There's a radiant moment in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood , which opened in revival last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, when Kerner, a Russian physicist and spy, celebrates the littleness of atoms. The public, he explains to the woman he loves, simply doesn't comprehend how minuscule the particles truly are. He tells her, "I could put an atom into your hand for every second since the world began, and you would have to squint to see the dot of atoms in your palm." Some men offer their beloved the moon. Kerner offers his a speck in her palm...
...paper is another step along the road [to understanding the chemistry of the ozone layer]," says David W. Fahey, a research physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aeronomy Laboratory, and co-author of the paper. "The stage has been nicely set."Photo Courtesy the US Air ForceThe scientists flew their instruments in a converted version of this U-2 jet, which NASA calls...