Research Papers

Research Papers Scientific, engineering, and medical research papers are the backbone of global innovation and progress. They set the future. These documents not only chronicle new discoveries and technological advances but also serve as the primary means for researchers to communicate, validate, and build upon one another’s work. I believe awareness of what research papers […]

Magnets

Magnets Ever since kindergarten, I can remember magnets. It was fascinating to see them repel or attract another magnet. Even just recently when attending a conference, I was given a name badge with a pair of magnets on the back. I simply removed the one magnet and put it inside my shirt. The badge adhered […]

Recycling Renaissance

Recycling Renaissance Word count: 974 Reading time: 3.6 minutes One of the many things I learned from my dad was about recycling. Dad was a voracious reader of books and newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the south Jersey Salem Sunbeam. Newspapers would accumulate on the basement stairway […]

Can Fusion Solve the Climate Change Problem?

Photo courtesy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Can Fusion Solve the Climate Change Problem? Written: July 2002 The frequency, duration, and strength of storms, flooding, and forest fires are increasing, as we see every day in the news. Experts are predicting things will get worse, a lot worse, unless the countries of the world take aggressive […]

The Big One Who Got Away

A Yangtze sturgeon CREDIT: PEOPLE’S DAILY During a trip to China a dozen or so years ago, we visited the Three Gorges Dam, and it was a sight to behold. The straight-crested concrete gravity structure is almost one and a half miles long with a maximum height of 607 feet. The structure incorporates 37 million […]