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...plant kingdom except for the muscling-in of a little-known group of microscopic water animals.* Unlike the 850,000 other species of animals, which live parasitically off the food-making ability of the plant world, these little creatures contain chlorophyll and hence can synthesize food out of water, carbon dioxide in the presence of light. And unlike any of the 250,000 species of plants, one of these animals-Euglena rubra by name-changes its color, now red, now green, to control the amount of light it uses. This phenomenon was explained last week in Physiological Zoology by Leland...
...floor study Edmonds works according to an erratic method all his own. He never knows when he begins a novel how it is going to end. He never takes notes on his research. Having a very poor memory, he often has to do research over & over. He never makes carbon copies of his novels. "Something terrible is going to happen as a result," he says, "but I can't write if I've got to fiddle around with carbons in the midst of writing...
...first time in the history of science or agriculture, man may be about to make a fundamental improvement in the unique power of plants to manufacture food out of carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light. Selective breeding, long practised to increase the yield of plants, may eventually be looked back on as little better than superficial when compared with a new method described last week by Cornell's Botanist Lewis Knudson. Using X-rays, Knudson has permanently increased the size of plants' cnloroplasts-the cell's tiny granular bodies where chlorophyll makes sugar...
Shotwelding is a refinement of spot welding designed for stainless steel (usual formula: 18% chromium, 8% nickel), whose great tensile strength-four times that of ordinary carbon steel-is lost when it is heated to 1,100° to 1,600°. The Shotwelding electrodes stab the metal for 1/10 th 1/20 th of a second, heating it so instantaneously through its danger zone to its 2,700° fusing point that the alloy's unique strength is not affected. Invented by Budd Manufacturing Co. (and used for making stainless steel railroad coaches), Shotwelding may well make steel planes...
Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...