Science and Technology
Scientists Find Two Ways That Hurricanes Rapidly Intensify
Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are some of the most frightening and destructive types of extreme weather. Predicting them has been notoriously difficult for forecasters who have been unable to fully understand why some tropical storms or tropical depressions that seem commonplace can suddenly turn…
Is Intellectual Property Turning into a Knowledge Monopoly?
The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventorEdison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bellhad ended with the nineteenth century.…