Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 144: what you’re looking at

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— MARCH of SCIENCE A survey of recent advances in the labs. Alsrican progress in the field of atomic energy was attested some time back by the launching of the world’s first atomic submarine (see AUTHENTIC No. 45), and now America has given the world the first atomic battery. De- signed and constructed by the Radio Corporation of America, the battery is not much bigger than a postage stamp and delivers one thou- sandth of a watt of power by converting nuclear energy di- rectly to electricity. It is estimated that a small portable radio could be run for twenty years on ten of these batteries, and that in the not too distant future municipal power will be supplied by large replicas of this tiny battery. Dr. Fritz Winckel, of the Institut fiir Schwingungsfors- chung, Berlin-Charlottenburg, has introduced a remarkable new tool into medical re- search. He began by designing electronic apparatus for the scientific study of singing voices, and then found that diseases of the vocal chords and respiratory organs could be detected by careful study of recordings of the voice of the patient. He called in ear, nose and throat specialists, and together they worked out a diagnostic. method based upon microphone recordings. It is claimed that analyses of these recordings have the documentary value of an X-ray photograph or electro- cardiogram. One of the basic tenets of scientific method is that every- thing—problem, experiment, explanation—should be made as simple as possible. A simple theory for unexplained pheno- mena is always preferred to a complex one. Yet scientists are fallible and very often they cannot help disregarding this fundamental principle. Thus it is that for quite a few years, 143 comiclooks.corn