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...this is no problem once he goes to a doctor. In a woman, the gonococci may spread and hide, or mingle with other germs to make diagnosis extremely difficult. In the new detection method described by Dr. Brown, the gonococci are made fluorescent and visible through a microscope under ultraviolet light only a few minutes after a smear is taken from a patient. Hospitals across the U.S. are now testing the test, and by the end of the year it should be ready for general...
...impossible for ultraviolet radiation to penetrate the atmosphere and therefore the satellite, to be launched this fall, may give astronomers a "picture" of solar radiation which they have never had before. When finally in the satellite, the observatory's instrument will scan the sun and the information it sends back to earth will help explain how the sun works, how it affects the earth, and how its intense radiation might endanger a future astronant...
...order to check the spectroscope's operation before it is used in OSO II, NASA launched it in an Aerobee rocket last November, for a 15 minute flight over White Sands. The instrument failed to operate properly, and gave only intermittent readings of ultraviolet intensity. If the device had been recovered, as planned, it could have been checked for mechanical flaws. But the spectroscope was destroyed when the rocket crashed in the desert...
Somewhere between the farm and the home refrigerator, fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. are almost sure these days to get a scientific going over. Antiseptic washes, ultraviolet light, sulphur dust, gamma rays-the possibilities are almost endless, but the purpose is almost always the same: to stop decay caused by fungi and bacteria...
...tons of fluorine can scavenge out of the earth's atmosphere all the free electrons that now make long-distance radio communication possible. Some 25,000 tons of hydrogen, which is soon to be burned in just such vast quantities, could screen off the sun's ultraviolet light, changing the atmosphere's temperature, causing unpredictable and perhaps unpleasant effects on the earth's weather and climate...