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Speed (mph) Date Plane typePilot Place2,092.294 July 27, 1976 Lockheed SR-71A Maj. Adolphus H. Bledsoe, Jr. (USAF) Beale AFB, Calif.Speed over a Straight CourseAbsolute World RecordsAltitude…Medical Maggots, Menacing Asteroids
Information Please's roundup of recent discoveries by Otto Johnson It seems the latest discoveries in our annual roundup are either mutant size-busters or minor portents of disaster.…Like Father, Like Daughter
Past evidence uncovered in Israel and France has shown that Neanderthals lived on Earth at the same time as modern Homo sapiens. Neanderthals were found to have lived about 34,000 years ago near…Science Websites
National Science Foundation: www.nsf.gov National Academy of Sciences: www.nas.edu American Association for the Advancement of Science: www.aaas.org Federation of American Scientists: www.fas.org…National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees
The National Inventors Hall of Fame, established in 1973 and located in Akron, Ohio, honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social, and economic…Cosmic Dust Doomed Dinosaurs?
The earliest fossil animal embryos, dating from the Precambrian era, were found by American, Taiwanese, and Chinese scientists in phosphate deposits in China's Guizhou province. Some of…The 2001 Class of Inductees
Robert L. Banks, 1921–1989, and John Paul Hogan, 1919– , POLYPROPYLENE AND HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE). While working for the Phillips Petroleum Company, Banks and Hogan developed two…The Mother Lobe of Genius
The fossil skull of a 260-million-year-old sheep-sized animal was found near Williston on the Northern Cape, South Africa. It is the most primitive member yet discovered of a group of plant-eaters…Formidable Fungus
According to recent research by archaeologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the well-dressed Ice Age woman's outfit doesn't resemble anything like the crude hide and fur…A Pill with a Purpose
A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology, led by S. George Djorgovski, may have glimpsed the dawn of our universe. In Aug. 2001, this team reported that it had spotted the “…Trending
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