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Because of the "unbelievable" preservation of the specimen found in Illinois, a club moss cone over two hundred million years old, located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said...
...German electronic microscope described last week, electron beams are straightened out in a magnetic coil, passed through the specimen to be studied, focused in another coil. The voltage used is 80,000. The resolving power (magnification) is 25 times greater than in visual microscopes, whereas a tenfold increase for electronic magnification had previously been considered tops...
Loaned for study and unwrapping by the Peruvian government, the mummy was one of a number collected by Julio C. Tello, Honorary Curator of Andean Archaeology. Alfred Kidder, instructor in Anthropology, is supervising research on the 1500-year old specimen...
...With the specimen were priceless samples of primitive embroidery, depicting in vivid colors, gods, demons, and preserved human heads which the Indians collected as a hobby...
...thing, they can detect an incipient case of measles by applying a blue black stain called nigrosin, which has a special affinity for measles virus, to a specimen of mucus from the nose or throat of anyone suffering from a sore throat. If he is coming down with measles, the virus can be seen under the microscope as dark dots...