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...scientist is a little like being a musician," he said. "You need a little talent and nurturing... and you'll get a lot of notes wrong...
...Likening scientist to enzymes, he said each scientist will inevitably find his or her natural strength. "You'll find if you bounce around enough some area where your temperament and your talents mesh," Herschbach said...
...three U.S. teams independently searching for asteroids. The CCDs, which record electronic images of celestial objects, would feed into computers that could speedily identify and track asteroids and comets against the background of fixed stars. "It's the right time to do it," says David Morrison, the nasa scientist who chaired the detection workshop. "If we had proposed this project 10 or 15 years ago and tried to do it with photography, it would have been completely impossible...
...that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin...
...estimated 250 million to 350 million gal. of crude that was deliberately pumped into the Persian Gulf in 1991 by Saddam Hussein's army. Though the majestic coral reefs in the gulf still show the effects of their trauma, they are slowly rebuilding. Says Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist of the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who visited the gulf last year: "The reef was like a weedy lot, not a healthy wilderness, but it was green and growing. It was in a state of flux...