EGG HARBOR, N.J. Up in the cockpit, Larry Van Hoy, a Federal Aviation Administration pilot, was flying low-tech. Radar showed a bit of nearby cloud cover, and to learn about other aircraft, he talked to the ground controller or looked out the window. ...
Many scientists disdain the hype that some of their colleagues seem to crave. It is unseemly, the critics say, and vaguely dĂŠclassĂŠ for serious researchers to seek accolades from the mob. So how to evaluate Colin Tudge's "The Link"? This is the last ...
Jorge Hirsch had been getting screwed. For years. At a scientific conference in 1989, he presented a paper arguing that the generally accepted theory of low-temperature superconductors—the BCS theory—was wrong. Most researchers at the time held that ...
SPANAWAY, Wash. When Ed Shadle was growing up, you could buy a junker for a couple hundred dollars, pound out the dents, drop a big engine in it, paint it candy apple red, take it to the outskirts of town and race from stoplight to stoplight until the ...
STANFORD, California: For 46 years, Francis Everitt, a Stanford University physicist, has promoted the often perilous fortunes of Gravity Probe B, perhaps the most exotic, "Star Trek"-ish experiment ever undertaken in space. Finally, with emergency ...
ALTADENA, Calif. When space engineers made a map of a planet or a distant moon back in the old days, they made an 8-by-10 picture of part of the surface, identified a couple of landmarks a crater and an outcrop, say and measured the distance between ...
The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility in Houston houses 842 pounds, or 382 kilograms, of Moon rocks collected by astronauts in six visits, like this piece of black and white breccia. (NASA) HOUSTON: In the lab, the Moon rocks look nondescript — dark ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Consider the galley slave, clad in rags, chained to a hardwood bench and clinging to an oar as long as a three-story flagpole. A burly man with a whip walks back and forth shouting encouragement. You’ve seen the movie. EARTHMOVER ...
Reuse and recycle. It’s a message that’s been hammered home; unfortunately, it isn’t always feasible. The automobile tire is the perfect example. Even hybrid cars need four of them apiece, and the global love affair with the automobile isn’t ending ...
STARKVILLE, Miss. The fall armyworm, scourge of young pretassel corn, grows up to be a nondescript brown moth about the length of a long finger’s knuckle. Frank M. Davis’s trainees are growing about 30,000 of them in the moth house at the United States ...
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