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...atom smashers have grown larger and more powerful, the subatomic particles that scientists have been able to find have grown stranger and more elusive. Still, it hardly seemed probable that anyone would ever discover another bit of matter quite so peculiar as the neutrino, first detected near a nuclear reactor in 1956. So light that it weighs nothing at all, the neutrino is free of electric charge and can pass through the heaviest materials as if it were hurtling through empty space. But last week, a team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship...
...them off targets and produce all sorts of atomic debris-including neutrinos. Physicists figured that any new type neutrinos created by this monstrous slingshot should have as much as i billion volts of energy. They would not be nearly so numerous as the neutrinos flooding out of a nuclear reactor, but their high energy should allow them many more ways of interacting with matter; as a result they would be more easily detectable...
...that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...
Even a child who is normally a "red reactor" with decay-prone teeth will show a blue reaction immediately after a good brushing. Those who eat their desserts first are not nearly so likely to need a toothbrushing for relative safety...
...Presence. American aid has supplied South Viet Nam with roads, factories, universities, even with an atomic reactor. But very little dribbles down to the peasant, who wants education for his children, medical care, agricultural aid, honest officials and, most of all, protection. On a farm in a coastal region, a mother explained the neglect of her scab-ridden year-old son. "It costs 14? to go to the village and 14? to come back. The doctor charges 70? and then I must buy medicine. We're too poor...