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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers at the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research at Sao Paulo University in Brazil announced at a press conference two days ago that they had measured neutron emission at twice normal background levels, which stands in sharp contrast to the much higher levels reported by the Italian group...
Educators hoping to improve American public schools should not attempt to copy the Japanese system--despite favorable portrayal of it in the national media, panelists said yesterday at a research institute sponsored forum...
...forerunner of the CFA emerged in 1955 out of an unusual collaboration between Harvard University and the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institute. While similar joint arrangements later developed into leading research sites such as Los Alamos at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories, the CFA was the first to take advantage of pooled resources and helped stake the U.S. to an early lead in international astrophysics...
Almost overnight, astrophysics gained national prominence after being viewed for years as "a bastard science" akin to astrology, Huchra recalls. From 1955 to 1973, Whipple supervised research in celestial mechanics, upper atmosphere weather meteorics and satellites...
...known objects more closely and will have little effect on the big bang theory. "It's going to do cosmology in the small sense," he says. Joseph Silk of the University of California at Berkeley agrees, saying that the ST will have only an indirect impact on big bang research. However, "We'll have a better understanding of galactic evolution, and you have to know that to understand the earlier universe," he says...