Feb. 18, 1913: 'Isotope' Goes From Greek to Geek
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The Greek word for "at the same place" suits Frederick Soddy very well, for he has just identified disparate elements with something very big in common.
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Classics, cult classics, vintage TV and one silent treasure
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Kids arm-wrestle all the time, but over the Internet? And there's nothing unusual about checking your weight, but in gallons? And all of this to illustrate lessons about networks and the search for life in outer space?
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NASA's moonbase plan tackles lunar cement and inflatable living quarters; Virgin America planes play Doom; Novell could be banned from selling Linux. In Gadget Lab.
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A British chemist bases his table on the established atomic weight of each element. He doesn't get everything right, but he's in the ballpark.
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Wow: has there ever been a month in computing like this one?  A January distinguished by not one major announcement, not two, but four significant events that will surely go down as milestones in the history of technology.
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A European laboratory that was the birthplace of the World Wide Web and home of Nobel prize-winning developments in the quest to understand the makeup of matter wished itself a happy 50th birthday Tuesday.
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Arts & entertainment: Some of the most radical buildings ever made owe their existence to Cecil Balmond. Jonathan Glancey salutes the engineer who defies belief.
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It's a question of keeping up standards. That famous slab in Paris has lost 50 micrograms, so Australian scientists are creating a perfect sphere out of Silicon 28. They even know how many atoms it'll contain.
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What did the first Olympians eat? Food historians are scouring ancient texts to find out.
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Homer Simpson, meet your match in space: Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lopsided "doughnut" of electrified plasma surrounding Saturn.
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Isotopes of lead and polonium could help scientists to form more accurate estimates of when people have died.
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By Anonymous  ANCIENT TEMPERATURE DROP M
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THE CANON: A WHIRLIGIG TOUR OF THE BEAUTIFUL BASICS OF  SCIENCE   Natalie Angier   Houghton Mifflin. 293 pp. $27.
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Fifty years ago, a paper appeared in the journal Physical Review with an answer to a physics puzzle: superconductivity.
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The renovated New York Hall of Science's new shows include one of the oldest (and best): "Mathematica," a show that continues to inspire wonder and persistent curiosity.
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Geek chic of years gone by isn't so cool today, as technology races on.