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Seized upon as a David-vs.-Goliath tale by Britain's press, Potter's duel with Gates may well have a surprise ending. A South African-born physicist with a flair for brilliant chess moves, Potter last month finished stitching together an ingenious alliance with three of the world's telecommunications heavyweights: Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia and Motorola of the U.S. The three firms account for 70% of global sales of mobile telephones and have the kind of financial muscle to make even Bill Gates sit up and take notice...
...controversial Harvard-educated physicist generated a new wave of hoopla in the scientific community last week when he announced his newest conception--cloning himself...
Again and again, controllers vainly sent signals to where they thought SOHO should be. Weeks went by without a response. Then, in mid-July, a University of Colorado physicist named Alan Kiplinger had an idea. Why not search for SOHO the same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that...
Powerball, the brainchild of physicist Ed Stanek, began in 1992 as a way for relatively less populous states to gain access to large money-generating player bases. The game works this way: to win the jackpot, players must match five numbers, chosen from 1 to 49, and hit the Powerball, chosen from numbers 1 to 42. Matching all but the Powerball yields a $100,000 prize. Matching the Powerball number itself, but no other numbers, wins $3. Players can opt to chose their own numbers or purchase "quick pick" tickets with computer-generated selections. The Lucky 13 always went...
...Washington Post reports that the panel, headed by Stanford physicist Dr. Peter Sturrock and funded by Laurance S. Rockefeller, reviewed 50 years of UFO incidents and urged scientists to overcome the fear of ridicule and research the phenomenon. While the panel's report, to be published Monday, emphasizes that it has found no convincing evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence, it recommends the study of significant physical evidence such as burns, radiation, radar images and the recurring appearance of strange lights. Skeptical? Well, you may want to remember that before the study of meteorites began in earnest, scientists dismissed the idea...