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...first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University of Sussex who was visiting Smalley's lab. The two scientists were studying what would happen if they heated carbon vapor to about 8,000 degreesC (14,500 degrees F). Unexpectedly, they detected a mysterious new form of carbon. Chemical tests proved two things: 1) the molecules had 60 carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with...
...full story of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath may never be known. Soviet officials have managed to keep most of the details secret. But in The Truth About Chernobyl, nuclear physicist and former Chernobyl chief engineer Grigori Medvedev gives a searing account of the accident. His book, published in the Soviet Union two years ago, will be released in English this week by Basic Books to coincide with the disaster's fifth anniversary...
...There is no way I will be relaxing over reading period. I have too much work to do," said Kamakshi Rao '91, a future physicist who will attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall...
...physicist Alexander Simon has everything, including the Theory of Everything. His new, Nobel-size hypothesis ties up the movement of the tides and the invisible violence of the atom, the phenomenon of light and the drag of gravity. If only this young Einstein were a think-tank nerd, he could insulate himself from the challenges of academic inquiry and worldwide publicity...
...says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks. "Now the industry wants to extend that time by 20 years. They're changing the rules of the game." Nuclear officials dispute the charge, pointing out that the 1954 Atomic Energy Act contained provisions for license...