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...well. In a report issued last week, the Manhattan-based Environmental Defense Fund charges that nitrogen oxides spewed from U.S. power plants, factories and automobiles have played a major role in destroying fish and other creatures in Atlantic bays and estuaries. Acid rain, concludes Michael Oppenheimer, an atmospheric physicist and one of the authors of the report, is "destroying the spawning grounds for East Coast fisheries...
...electric current freely at -283 degrees F. The Cray X-MP at the University of Illinois has produced a dazzling array of colorful animations, from the roiling birth of a tornado to the supersonic fountains that spew forth from black holes at the centers of galaxies. Says Nobel Physicist Kenneth Wilson of Cornell University: "An astronomer with a telescope can observe the universe over a period of 50 years. But an astrophysicist with a supercomputer can 'see' billions of years into the past and the future...
Between this rock and a hard place, British-born Physicist Freeman Dyson makes a spirited stand for optimism. Will our species end in fire or ice? Fire, the author concedes, would pose a difficult problem, but man might be able to overcome ice: "It is easier to keep warm on Pluto than to keep cool on Venus." Will we blow ourselves up? Probably not: "We shall abolish nuclear weapons, not by a sudden outburst of peace and goodwill but by a slow process of erosion. The weapons will be abolished as the missions for which they were designed come...
...Physicist Freeman Dyson shows that science and imagination are Infinite in All Directions. -- Anita Brookner' s deft novel of illusion...
...Meissner effect, named after German Physicist Walther Meissner, is defined as the exclusion of a magnetic field. The Stephenson effect, named after TIME Picture Editor Michele Stephenson, is defined as the solution to the problem of producing a perfect photograph to illustrate an impossibly complex story. The picture behind Stephenson, in which a swinging ceramic ball is being repelled by a horseshoe magnet, is an ingenious portrayal of superconductivity, one of the most promising new scientific frontiers. The Meissner effect picture by TIME's Bill Pierce, which appeared in our Aug. 10, 1987, issue, won the prestigious Budapest Award, given...