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In a series of studies coordinated by Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., researchers tested a combination of two drugs: 5- fluorouracil, a proven anticancer agent, and levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies...
NASA has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure the RTGs are safe. Each of the 144 plutonium pellets in the generators, designed by General Electric, is surrounded by an iridium shell. Coated pellets are then encased by two graphite shells and finally by an aluminum shroud. The U.S. Department...
This general procedure was created initially by I.I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate who was Ramsey's Ph.D adviser at Columbia. Ramsey improved on Rabi's method by separating the oscillating field into two smaller fields, which increased the precision of the experiment and the accuracy of the measurement.
Harvard is one of the few colleges that asks students to focus on a concentration as early as their first year. Other schools, including Yale and Princeton, allow students to dabble more in different departments and choose a major later in sophomore year. Obviously, students at Harvard continue to experiment...
Cubism is the archetype of 20th century cultural movements. Indeed, it is the reason so many people have come to think of modern art as a sequence of movements, group activities. Neither Pablo Picasso nor Georges Braque could have created it on his own: it was a truly cooperative process...