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This month in odyssey.(elements)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... The Greeks thought that air, earth, fire, and water were the fundamental elements that made up everything else. It was not until 1661 that British physicist Robert Boyle argued against that concept in The Sceptical Chymist, and accurately defined an element as a substance that could not be ...

Io: Getting the Red Out.(Jupiter's moon)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io looks something like a science experiment gone bad. The moon's surface is painted with pastel hues that blend into bolder-colored shapes around seething volcanic vents. A good example of one of the more wildly colored volcanoes that pepper Io's ...

Fossiles from hell.(earliest known organisms found)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... The cradle of life may have been a sulfurous, subterranean inferno, not unlike a medieval vision of hell. How's that for an opening line? Actually, those aren't my words. They're a direct quote from Birger Rasmussen, a paleobiologist at the University of Western Australia. It ...

The Dark Side of Mercury.(planets)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Astronomers have been squinting at the tiny disk of Mercury, our Solar System's innermost planet, ever since Galileo first put a telescope to it in 1609. Of course, his optics were about as good as the bottom of a cola, bottle. Even in modern times, astronomers have tried to capture images ...

And Speaking of Gas ...(too much soda is bad for the health)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Did you know that schoolgirls who drink cola are five times as likely to suffer bone fractures as girls who don't? Yup. Harvard researcher Grace Wyshak would like to remind all you pop poppers that you shouldn't be playing football. She says soda sipping is a serious "skeletal health ...

Chemical Cocktail.(detecting decaying body odors)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Scientists are in the process of developing an electronic nose that can "sniff out" chemical smells coming from a decomposing body. Okay, this scoop just smelled right, so I had to report it to you. But beware, it's pretty macabre -- unless you're interested in pathology, want ...

Cosmic Connections.(astronomy)

Nov 01, 2000; ... On the next clear night, when it is very dark, take a friend out with you to look at the sky. You'll both feel very small as you gaze up at the star-studded blackness. Out of the expanse will come feelings of insignificance that just might overwhelm your friend ... until you explain the ...

Setting the table.(chemical elements)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... The Work of Dimitri Mendeleyev You may not recognize the names of "Dimitri Mendeleyev" or his mother, "Maria Mendeleyeva." But whenever you enter a science classroom, you probably see a Mendeleyev achievement -- the Periodic Chart of the Elements. Maria's ...

The Nuclear Atom and the Modern Table.(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000 ... Despite its name, which comes from the Greek word for "indivisible," we know that the atom can be divided into smaller parts: electrons, protons, and neutrons. The unique properties of each element are determined by the makeup of its atoms. This neutron, proton, and electron content also ...

Women at the table.(physicists)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... A few women became famous for their investigations of the elements; other women's contributions are little-known even today. Marie Sklodowowska Curie (1867-1934) conquered poverty and discrimination to become a physicist. Together with her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered ...

Element-ary, My Dear Watson!(periodic system)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Sherlock Jones sat sipping soda in his Baker Street office. His friend, Watson Crick, appeared at the door. He looked sad. "What's up, Watson?" asked Sherlock. "My Uncle Barry died," said Watson. "I've just come from the reading of the will." "I'm so ...

SAILING to THE MAGIC ISLAND -- The Search for the Superheavy Elements.(physics)

Nov 01, 2000; ... In the land of the chemical elements, somewhere across a sea of instability lies the magic island of the superheavies, stable elements with 114 protons or more in their nuclei. After searching for the island for 40 years, scientists may finally be approaching the shore. In January 1999, ...

How Do Accelerators Work?(machine that is used to produce high energy, charged particles)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... An accelerator is a machine that is used to produce high speed, high energy, or "accelerated" charged particles. Charged particles include electrons (negative electric charge), protons (positive), and heavy ions (usually positive). Relying on the properties of electricity and magnetism (in ...

Elements of Knowledge.(problems)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Are you planning to be a scientist? For some very "elemental" advice on the essence of science, solve the following puzzle. From the clues given, determine the element names and enter them on the numbered spaces. Transfer the letters on the spaces to the same numbered blanks in the puzzle ...

Na - Elemental in Life, Death, and Immortality.(sodium experiments)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Thousands of years ago, Egyptians channeled water from wadis into shallow pans and left it in the sun to evaporate. The sparkling white stuff left behind they called natron. It's from this ancient word that sodium gets its odd chemical symbol Na. But what the Egyptians had ...

The Pure Thing!(water)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... An element is a substance made up of only one kind of atom. Because most atoms react with other atoms to make compounds, you don't usually find pure elements just sitting around. Iron, for instance, reacts easily with oxygen to form the compound iron oxide -- rust. Water is also ...

GOOD As GOLD!(alloys in coins)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Sacagawea, the native guide for Lewis and Clark's 1817 expedition, graces the United States' new dollar coin. While the coin looks golden, it contains no gold whatsoever. How did the U.S. Mint accomplish this? Older Susan B. Anthony dollars, or "Susies," looked too much like ...

What's up!(watching stars)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Meteor Showers and Two Planets to View ... All Night! The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 6:00 p.m. (your local time) on Nov. 15. Useful all month, the chart (except for planet positions) is also accurate for 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 1 and 5:00 ...

STARGAZING with Jack Horkheimer.(television program host)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... IS JUPITER KING OF THE PLANETS? GREETINGS, GREETINGS, FELLOW STAR AND PLANET GAZERS! THE BIGGEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS JUPITER, FOLLOWED BY SATURN. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY SOMETHING ABOUT JUPITER AND SATURN. JUPITER IS CALLED THE KING OF THE PLANETS ...

14 Si SILICON 28.09.(element silicon used in computers)

Nov 01, 2000; ... A "Bit" About Silicon The Information Superhighway has been the fast lane to success for many of today's youths. Ask anyone living in Silicon Valley, California (the Beverly Hills of high tech). The Valley cranks out 64 new millionaires every 24 hours. And they all owe their ...

Detonation!(science fiction)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... It's a brutally cold Saturday night in New York City. Shortly after midnight, the NYPD is called out to investigate: A strange hovering object in the sky has dropped a device -- feared to be explosive -- in Grand Central Station. The mysterious object has disappeared. SWAT ...

SCI CHAT.(names of elements)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000 ... In January, we asked readers what scientists should name two new elements, numbers 116 and 118, discovered at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. The eighth graders at Loveland Hurst Middle School in Loveland, OH, were eager to reply. The greatest number of ...

Nocturnia.(bat story)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000; ... The students in the sixth-grade class at the American International School in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, wrote original myths to explain natural phenomena. This one called Nocturnia. In the bountiful land of Mexico, there was a mysterious cave. Well, it used to be mysterious. Now, ...

The Newest Constellations.

Nov 01, 2000; ... FANTASTIC WOW! JOURNEY Editor's Note: This month, Fantastic Journeys meets a group of students from a special class at the Deron School in Montclair, NJ, who took on a task that hasn't been attempted since ancient times. Assisted by Michael Miller of the planetarium at the ...

HOAXBUSTERS!(outrageous stories)(Brief Article)

Nov 01, 2000 ... Just about everyone loves an outrageous story -- "hear the one about the lady who put her dog in the microwave to dry?" The problem is that we sometimes actually believe these stories. That's when they can be dangerous. In recent years, the media has capitalized on our tendency (or perhaps ...

Chew on This!(sweet-tasting metal lead)

Nov 01, 2000; ... Let's talk about element number 82 on the Periodic Table -- lead. Its chemical symbol, Pb, comes from the Latin plumbum. Lead is a sweet-tasting metal that has been used for thousands of years -- and it is poisonous. I'd recently heard about wild animals poisoned by lead at ...

Praising with faint damns

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Singing the blues rinse They're on the Road to Heaven, and it's paved with everything from Dylan to The Clash, says RACHEL HALLIBURTON about a group of very active OAPs

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