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Exobiologists have suggested a number of scenarios for the survival of Martian life. Sagan, for instance, theorizes that Mars may now be experiencing an ice age. As he explains it, the planet's northern hemisphere does not now receive the maximum possible dose of solar radiation because the Martian north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is There Life on Mars | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Ramsey and his colleagues began by putting very slow neutrons in a weak magnetic field, causing them to precess like tops. These spinning neutrons were directed through a strong electric field which would cause a dipole to change its precession frequency. However, the physicists recorded no change in the spinning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If Time Flowed Backwards, Who Would Ever Know | 3/25/1968 | See Source »

The Elis should murder the Crimson in the sprint and hurdle races, which come in a seemingly endless precession in outdoor meets. In fact, the varsity may not score more than five or six points in the five races of 440 yards or less, and Yale's 3:13.4 mile...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Trackmen to Face Rugged Yale | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Most of the earth's wobbling is a grand motion that makes its axis describe a 23° cone once every 26,000 years. This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the slightly nonspherical shape of the earth. Superimposed is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Wobbly Earth | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Massachusetts heads a precession of 48 states with 2,870 standard-bearers; New York has 1,325 and Pennsylvania 395. The booby prize goes to Nevada's contribution of 3.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Foreign Nations Represented Here; Canadian, Chinese Contingents Largest | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

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