Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion years ago. In Washington last week, Navy scientists reported that a high-flying Aerobee rocket had detected strong X-ray sources associated with distant galaxies. And NASA officials are preparing for the launching later this month of an orbiting observatory equipped with telescopes for the continuous detection of ultraviolet, gamma and X-ray radiation that cannot be seen through the earth's atmosphere...
...telescopic observations from the ground, which showed that a few older, cooler supergiants are continuously expelling matter at a sedate velocity of 20,000 m.p.h. Perhaps, after many millions of years, they lost enough mass in this way to be classed as dwarfs. Morton's measurements, which involved ultraviolet light that does not penetrate the earth's atmosphere, make clear that some supergiants are actually spewing out large quantities of matter so fast that they are quickly becoming mere shadows of their former selves...
...discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...
...painful tests, Dr. Kligman offers some negative findings. DMSO, he says, provides practically no relief for itching or superficial pain. As a germ killer, it is weak "and far inferior to alcohol." It does nothing to promote the healing of clean, simple burns, and it worsened one of ten ultraviolet burns. DMSO also failed to tranquilize any of 20 men in a six-month test. Nevertheless, it has some remarkably beneficial properties...
...found that a number of them seemed to be "interlopers" among the quasars. Those closest to earth, he discovered, are the familiar blue stars. But some of those fainter than 14.5 magnitude are remarkably similar to quasars. When photographed with blue filters, they show an excess of ultraviolet energy, which is a characteristic of quasars...