Science
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Between the Distant Space and the Deep Blue Sea
Water bodies cover almost 71 percent of the surface of our planet and have played a crucial role in our history; some of the oldest...
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Global Warming Edges Closer to Home
What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago people talked about global warming as something that would affect the developed world decades ahead, if...
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Brain cells from an unlikely source
This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. At this moment, millions of toilets are flushing. Whirling down the drains is...
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Genome Envy
This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. Humans have an inferiority complex when it comes to our genetic material. Back...
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Evolution, family trees, and language
This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. The steppes of Southern Russia and Ukraine are dotted with lone hills, each...
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A Short History of Papermaking
Paper is the ubiquitous and lightweight product we all know and love. It can be made to absorb stains for cleaning purposes or watercolors for...
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The ins and outs of J1 Visas
Many foreign-born scientists, medical doctors, mathematicians and engineers who enter the United States for training or education will, at one time or another, hold J-1...
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What’s in a name? Etymology of 13 Scientific words
Everyone and everything we know has a history. A wooden table was originally part of a tree, a colorful butterfly used to be a revolting...
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Innovation Act – Will It Address the Patent Troll Problem?
The patent system was established hundreds of years ago to “promote the useful arts”. A patent confers to an inventor the ability to exclude others...
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The Supreme Court Takes on Patent Trolls
Recent public concern about “patent trolls” has provoked Congress to consider passing a reform bill to confront the perceived problem, while the judicial system has...
