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...Everything on earth lives by grace of the sun, so better knowledge of the sun is vitally important. Solar astronomers at 126 stations around the turning earth have been watching the sun 24 hours a day. To catch its important ultraviolet and X rays, which do not penetrate to the surface, balloons soar high in the air and rockets climb to the top of the atmosphere on a regular schedule. Special instruments watch the sun's glowing outer corona, which may extend as a tenuous gas all the way to the earth...
...with instruments and equipment. It has air conditioning and feeding devices to keep Little Curly alive and to report her life processes. Russian scientists say that she has been given conditioned reflexes that make her take food and water when a bell rings. Other instruments observe cosmic rays, solar ultraviolet and X rays, temperature and air pressure. A radio transmitter sends coded data back to earth on the same frequencies (40.002 and 20.005 megacycles) that were used by Sputnik I before its batteries died. Professor Boris V. Ukarkin of the Soviet Academy of Sciences promised that the large size...
Next spring the first major satellite to rise will carry instruments to study the sun's ultraviolet rays; the second will record the erosion of meteor particles the size of sand grains; the third, only 13 in. in diameter, will be made of plastic (instead of magnesium), will measure air density and the earth's magnetic field. Jobs for the other three satellites have not yet been picked...
...last week in the museum's basement, surrounded by museum staffers and Chinese and Japanese scholars, Director Fuller placed the wood boy face down on an improvised operating table and made his incision with a sharp, small-bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold...
Parke, Davis reports no potency problems. Partisans of what has come to be known as the Reese method of ultraviolet inactivation contend that it definitely produces a superior vaccine. Of this there is no proof. But there is reason to fear that some vaccine already used may have been no more potent than colored water in conferring protection against paralytic polio. A further unanswered question is the effect of storage on potency. Manufacturers may store vaccine under refrigeration for six months after potency testing; once it is released from their coolers, it must be used within six months. All vaccine...