This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. “Proteins are the workhorses of the cell”. According to Google, some 42,800 articles...
Ivan Oransky is the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today. In 2010, he co-founded Retraction Watch, where he and others discuss the...
Luke McKinney did what anybody with three degrees in Physics would do: he became a humor writer for Cracked.com. Wait, what? Read on to find...
Dr. Joe Incandela is a professor of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. At CERN, he also leads the Compact Muon Solenoid team,...
Earlier today at Columbia University took place the Research Data Symposium 2013, a conference where scientists, journalists, publishers and librarians came together to discuss how...
It’s often the simple questions that baffle us the most. For a society entrenched in technology, it seems silly to even entertain the question of...
In their spare time, many engineers and biologists enjoy writing philosophical letters to editors of scientific journals, claiming that the age of collaboration and multidisciplinary...
This year’s International Startup Festival took place in Montreal’s charming Old Port from July 13 to 15. The slogan of the festival was “Startups and...
Picture the night sky on a breezy May evening. Picture the moon, the stars and the other planets. Most of what you see from our...
Back in the 1950’s, using a computer meant typing commands into a terminal, a machine which would route your requests to another, bigger machine, called...