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...order to pinpoint the source of the mysterious Scorpio X rays, a group of scientists led by Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, of Cambridge's American Science & Engineering, Inc., lofted a NASA Aerobee rocket 150 miles above the earth-well above the atmospheric blanket that X rays cannot penetrate...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...
...Berkeley meeting privately sided with the CERN findings, none would state flatly that symmetry had, after all, been restored. Franzini's group is preparing a new round of experiments at Brookhaven in an attempt to confirm the violations they reported; still another team led by Columbia University Physicist Leon Lederman will attempt a similar experiment, and the CERN scientists plan to make more tests of their own. "The evidence from the CERN experiments is by no means conclusive," says Franzini defiantly. "Many more experiments are needed before we can say who is right...
...training, British Physicist Frank Stannard is a sober scientific observer concerned with the material world of matter and motion, of minute particles and massive reactions. By inclination Stannard is a dreamer. His antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...
...accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...