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Science News March 24, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 21, 1931 Mushrooms' sudden growth follows long preparation... Germs killed in laboratory by high-pitched sound waves... Radio reception worse as sunsports grow plentiful...  |
CIO March 15, 2001 Sara Shay |
Giving Direction The history of the compass.  |
Wired March 2001 Stewart Brand |
Founding Father Paul Baran conceived the Internet's architecture at the height of the Cold War. Forty years later, he says the Net's biggest threat wasn't the USSR -- it was the phone company...  |
Science News March 10, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 7, 1931 Canyon de Chelly now national monument... Can predict mental disease from study of children... 11,000 miles per second is new heavenly speed record...  |
Science News March 3, 2001 |
TimeLine: February 28, 1931 Camera catches rattler's sinister beauty... Rats used to measure danger from penetrating gamma rays... New diesel racer will run 1,200 miles without refueling...  |
Science News February 24, 2001 |
TimeLine: February 21, 1931 Babies understand what is said long before they are able to speak, psychologists have discovered... For the first time, the flea has been definitely incriminated as a probable vector in the transmission of typhus fever... More americans killed by autos than by world war... etc.  |
Science News February 9, 2001 |
Timeline: February 7, 1931 Little Waterwheel Does Big Power Job... Better Light for Less Power from New Illuminating Unit... Women Scientists Asked to Use Maiden Names...  |
Science News February 3, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 31, 1931 Robber fly masquerades in bumblebee's clothing... Lack of iron may cause common mental disease... February a "perfect month" for a simplified calendar... etc.  |
Science News January 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 24, 1931 Einstein discusses revolution he caused in scientific thought... Women remember pleasant events, men unpleasant...  |
Science News January 19, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 17, 1931 An American romance in steel and steam... Spring-built molecule models simulate vibration of atoms... Margarine made from palm oil becomes competitor of butter... Hard for mathematics to keep up with depression...  |
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