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THIS fall, almost 60,000 students at institutes of higher education in Massacusetts were forced to become guinea pigs in the state's experiment with universal health care. Worse yet, they are being forced to pay a handful of private insurance companies for the privilege. In most cases, they are...
Wolfgang H.E. Rueckner, who conducted an inconclusive cold fusion experiment in the Advanced Physics labs in the Science Center last spring, said he supports the committee's recommendation to continue research, even if it is not likely to have applicable results.
The scientists at the meeting assessed the usefulness of research last spring that attempted to duplicate the original experiment of B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and his associate, Martin Fleischmann, who announced on March 23 that they had detected the by-products of room-temperature fusion.
Attempts by other scientists to duplicate the experiment were unsuccessful. However, some of them did show a small amount of excess heat production. None of the other experiments showed production of neutrons or gamma rays, which are sure signs of fusion.
Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, near the tiny town of Parkfield, scientists are conducting an experiment that they hope will open the door to a new era of earthquake prediction. Along a 20-mile section of the San Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000...