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Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom.
Most termites are fanatically secretive, demanding absolute darkness. With passionate insistence, the colony avoids contact with the outside world, even with other termites. Around its boundaries are frontier guards, specialized soldiers with enormous jaws, or with syringe-like heads which squirt out corrosive liquids. So attached are termites to secrecy...
This "superconductive bolometer" can register heat from a man's body 500 yards away in total darkness. If hitched to a proper scanning device, it makes a rough picture of any warm object. Dr. Andrews, who had himself "photographed" by the bolometer (see cut), thinks it will be useful...
In 1943 a severe heart attack warned Novelist Franz Werfel that he might not have long to live. So the author of The Song of Bernadette decided to spend the days before darkness writing a satirical novel about the world of the future. Last August, a few days before he...
As the evening wore on, Pauline Hutt grew frightened. Finally she bundled up her nine-year-old son and together they began a frantic search in the biting zero wind and darkness. When she found her husband, he was trailing blood as he crawled toward home. He mumbled that he...