50 Years Ago

  1. Humans

    From the October 27, 1934, issue

    A large telescope lens made in Russia, artificial gamma rays from sodium, and acetylcholine revealed as message carrier for nerve cells.

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  2. Humans

    From the October 20, 1934, issue

    Searching New York's East River for golden treasure, enormous canyon discovered in Mexico, and new radioactive elements predicted.

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  3. Humans

    From the October 13, 1934, issue

    A wingless rooster, production of artificial radioactive elements, and novae proposed as the origin of cosmic rays.

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  4. Humans

    From the October 6, 1934, issue

    Glass models of rotifers, anthrax as a threat among agricultural workers, and cosmic-ray studies in the stratosphere.

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  5. Humans

    From the September 29, 1934, issue

    Structural details of chromosomes, America's Cup yacht technology, and an improved street car.

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  6. Humans

    From the September 22, 1934, issue

    Giant ocean liner ready for launch, synthetic vitamin C produces unexpected cures, and systematic problem solving in chimpanzees.

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  7. Humans

    From the September 15, 1934, issue

    Magnificent Mt. Rainier, high-altitude rockets, and how motion pictures change children's attitudes.

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  8. Humans

    From the September 8, 1934, issue

    Ditches on the moon's surface, 12,000-year-old bones and dart points, and nature as waves of knowledge in the mind.

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  9. Humans

    From the September 1, 1934, issue

    A new German zeppelin under construction, fossils of giant pigs, and word recognition in dogs.

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  10. From the August 25, 1934, issue

    Earrings from Oklahoma's mound builders, a bathysphere's record descent, and gamma rays for splitting atoms.

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  11. Humans

    From the August 18, 1934, issue

    The Great Dust Storm of 1934, preferred sleep position and handedness, and tensor theory applied to electrical machinery.

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  12. Humans

    From the August 11, 1934, issue

    Ruins of magnificent Assyrian palace uncovered, termites need fungus to thrive, and Homo sapiens thought to be 10 million years old.

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