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This level of access is unprecedented for a Western scientist, and even more unusual considering that Sich is a graduate student, the Globe said...
Sich, who is fluent in Ukrainian and learned Russian as a Harvard undergraduate, worked closely in Chernobyl with Russian scientist Alexander Borovoi, who is in charge of research at the nuclear facility. Borovoi allowed him to gain access to the site and all of its records...
That's not hard to believe, considering the before and after pictures NASA unveiled. Blurred blobs have turned into sharp, clean images of galaxies, super-novas and stars. But, says senior project scientist David Leckrone, "these are the very first test images. We're not pushing the telescope to its limits yet." As they do, scientists will almost certainly be able to start solving some of astronomy's greatest mysteries: How old is the universe? Do giant black holes lurk at the cores of galaxies? How did the galaxies get formed? Are there planets circling other stars? And besides searching...
When people describe Collins, they do so in oddly contradictory terms. Thus he is said to be one of the most compassionate people in the world, and also one of the most aggressive. He is a skeptical prove-it-to-me scientist but is also capable of deep religious faith. He is as intent on the impression he is making as any politician up for re-election. Yet he appears to be utterly unpretentious, preferring to dress casually in jeans and, when he rides his Honda Nighthawk 750 motorcycle, a black leather jacket. (On one of his motorcycle helmets...
...stunning announcement three years ago, King unveiled evidence that such a rogue gene exists. By analyzing chromosomes from women in families repeatedly hit by cancer, the scientist discovered that the victims shared on chromosome 17 a pattern of genetic markers -- stretches of identical DNA -- not found in those free of the disease. This did not mean that the markers caused cancer but that the gene responsible lurked somewhere nearby on the same chromosome...