Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold & Heredity. Not only X-rays but extremes of temperature produce such mutations as abnormal eyes, queer-shaped wings and bald thoraxes in Drosophila melanogaster, the little fruit fly made famous by the genetic researches of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died...
...Arthur has never lost his enthusiasm for this cosmic soap bubble. But the speeds indicated by the amount of redshift, some of which now equal 25,000 miles per second, have made many astronomers doubt. Other causes for the redshift were suggested, such as cosmic dust or a change in the nature of light over great stretches of space. Two years ago Dr. Hubble admitted that the expanding universe might be an illusion, but implied that this was a cautious and colorless view. Last week it was apparent that he had shifted his position even further away from a literal...
Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...
...Whipple's theory, which was contained in a paper read by him held that the origin of cosmic static lies in the extreme low temperature radiation in the center of the Milky...
...reporting Dr. Millikan's successful investigation of cosmic rays in the upper stratosphere [TIME, Nov. 16], the great reduction in price of stratosphere sounding balloons evidently suggested real news interest. But that price reduction does not mean that manufacturers had formerly been making huge profits; it is result of an entirely new process of manufacture developed by intensive industrial research...