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The tunnels were originally built to house the pipes. Construction, which started in 1927, was aimed at providing maintainance workers with easy access to the pipes. Damp and dark, the concrete bunkers are sometimes ten feet high, at other points too low for a 6-ft. person to stand. They...
At first a post-mortem study yielded no poison. But what doctors did find under Markov's skin was a tiny platinum-iridium pellet, 1.7 mm in diameter, with two holes, each a mere .4 mm wide, drilled in at right angles. The holes could have contained a toxic substance...
Generally, whenever Egypt was expansive, Nubia was overwhelmed; when Egyptian power declined, Nubia rebounded. This it did in about 2000 B.C., when a new culture rose around the town of Kerma. In Brooklyn its manifestations are a score of objects found in the tombs of Kerma's warrior kings?circular...
In the late 1930s, on the eve of World War II, Oppenheimer published two landmark papers in the journal Physical Review. The first, in collaboration with a graduate student named George Volkoff, argued that neutron stars could in fact exist. They would have a diameter of about 10 km (6...
But because gravity is so weak at long range, detecting its waves, says Harvard's Smarr, is "like measuring fluctuations in the dis tance between the earth and sun equal to the diameter of a human hair." So far no one has been able to accomplish that feat. But investigators...