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—By Borgna BrunnerOmo Is Oldest In 2003 the dating of an Ethiopian Homo sapiens fossil, “Herto Man,” was hailed as a milestone in paleoanthropology. At 160,000 years old, Herto Man was a full 50…
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(Encyclopedia) American Museum of Natural History, incorporated in New York City in 1869 to promote the study of natural science and related subjects. Buildings on its present site facing Central…
Born: 1911Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif. Radio distance and direction indicator—Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968. He helped design a ground-controlled radar system for…
Cosmic Dust and Snotties:Recent Discoveries In 1998 we have seen several notable and surprising scientific discoveries. Here are the finds that raised our eyebrows, made us scratch our…
(Encyclopedia) Asimov, IsaacAsimov, Isaacăzˈəmŏf [key], 1920–92, American author and scientist, b. Petrovichi, USSR, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1939; M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1948). An astonishingly prolific…
