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But the days of isolation mentality are numbered. Last week Britain ceased % to be an island for the first time since the end of the last Ice Age, when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the...
The femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter...
And the winner is . . . Mark A. Brest van Kempen, 28, a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute. His idea is to set down a granite ring, 6 ft. in diameter, with an earth-filled 6-in.-diameter hole in the center. An inscription will read, THIS SOIL AND...
Named for Edwin Hubble, the great astronomer who discovered in the 1920s that the universe is expanding, the space telescope has a mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate...
Grindlay says the telescope--four meters in diameter and 10 times stronger than the one Harvard now uses--would be used to map out the large scale structure of the universe, a project which would give scientists a "toe-hold on the whole field."