Notebook

  1. Humans

    Ring World

    Ever wonder what it might be like to live on a doughnut-shaped world? NASA has created a Web page that gives you a sense of what life would be like in a ringlike structure out in space, where there is no gravity except the centrifugal force generated by the structure’s spin. Simulation requires a Java-enabled […]

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  2. From the May 20, 1933, issue

    LARGEST X-RAY TUBE BEGINS TO BATTLE AGAINST CANCER The mightiest weapon yet to enter the war against cancer was put in operation at the Mercy Hospital Institute of Radiation Therapy of Chicago. It is a new, 800,000-volt X-ray tube that, operating on a current of 1/100 of an ampere, is estimated to emit radiation equal […]

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  3. Amphibian Atlas

    Looking for a Montana tailed frog outside Montana or wondering in which state you might find a desert slender salamander? The U.S.