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The Soviet Academy of Sciences has been made a laughing-stock by the muddle over its constituency election for the Supreme Soviet. But the difficulty should have been anticipated.
Nutrition and hygiene during early childhood are important in determining the risk of the diseases which follow industrialization. We still know little about the processes involved.
Heat conduction is usually regarded as a phenomenon in which energy diffuses away from regions of high temperature, but diffusion may not always be a sufficient explanation.
Faster, more straightforward methods are needed for testing the new high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors. A non-contact eddy-current characterization instrument particularly suitable for screening large numbers of samples will soon be on the market.
A top-loading microbalance, a micro-respirometer, a gaussmeter, and a range of pre-calibrated electrodes are a few of the latest measuring devices for the laboratory.
