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...conference of the International Council of Scientific Unions in London, Sterling P. Newberry of the General Electric Co. last week told about the invention of an instrument that scientists have coveted for years. It is a new X-ray microscope, developed by Newberry and Selby E. Summers at the G.E. laboratory in Schenectady...
Scientists have never been able to get a magnified X-ray look at internal structures through ordinary optical microscopes, since X rays cannot be focused by optical lenses like ordinary light. The best X rays can do is to cast shadows of the objects that they have passed through...
Usually, the shadows are ill-defined because the source of the X rays is comparatively large (e.g. as in an X-ray chest plate). As the source grows smaller, the sharpness of the shadows increases...
...Nausea & DTs. To combat nausea and vomiting-whether from heaving seas, bumpy airplanes, pregnancy, kidney disease, cancer or heavy X-ray treatment-chlorpromazine seems far superior to other drugs. It is the only one that helps victims of dysautonomia (TIME, June 7), where the cause of vomiting is deep in the nervous system. It is credited with saving several lives in especially stubborn cases of vomiting during pregnancy or from kidney disease. And chlorpromazine seems to be the answer in many cases of persistent hiccuping...
Frondel and Hurlbut are both authorities in the general field of mineralogy and crystallography. The Berman Memorial X-ray Laboratory and the Mineralogical Museum of the University are under their direction...