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Cast in Loughborough, England, the five-foot-diameter bell was a gift of President Abbot Lawrence Lowell. It bears the inscription, "In memory of voices that are hushed."
Until that time, some ground-based scientists continue searching for signals that the planets exist, even if they cannot be seen. One, Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz, is currently searching for radio signals from intelligent life forms, using an 84-ft.-diameter radio telescope owned by the University and located...
Such cosmic violence, the scientists postulated, probably results from the stormy relationship between two companion stars that orbit each other. In this scheme, one member is an ordinary star like the sun. The other is a so-called neutron star; this is essentially a dead star that has run out...
The bridge had undergone inspection last September, but J. William Burns, Connecticut's transportation commissioner, suggested a likely cause of collapse: a structurally crucial steel pin, 10 in. long and 7 in. in diameter that, he said, "is missing or sheared off." The accident has already prompted unscheduled bridge...
For American astronomers, who are still deeply disappointed by the failure of the U.S. to send off a probe to intercept the most famous comet of all, Halley's, when it returns in 1986, IRAS-Araki-Alcock was a gift from heaven. At close encounter, it appeared as a...