Changing the Language of Nature
Farren Isaacs’ Recoding of the Genetic Code and the Future of GMOs Yale Professor Farren Isaacs’ big moment on late night TV came on October 24, 2013. After a night out with the lab celebrating their...
High School Essay Competition Winners
Princeton Innovation is proud to announce the results of its inaugural high school essay competition, "Explore Scientific Innovation!" Participants were asked to write about either a past or future...
Back to Basics: Finding Anions 101
Allow me to take you on a trip down memory lane — back to your first ever chemistry class. Remember learning about atoms? Your teacher probably explained how molecules are made up of atoms, each of which...
How Windows Can Replace Your Thermostat
As summer ends and winter arrives, people from Maine to Alaska begin to activate their radiators, furnaces, or electric heaters in preparation for the intense cold. Many households in the United States and...
How to Prevent Yourself from Getting Hacked 101
In the last 18 months alone, hacks of Premera Blue Cross, Anthem, Sony, Home Depot, JPMorgan, and Ebay have resulted in a total of over 400 million records being stolen. These records ranged from email...
Redshift: The Universe’s Doppler Effect
What is redshift? Everyone is familiar with the sound a passing siren makes: the distant noise, the buildup, the peak in pitch as it passes you, and finally the fading of the siren as the vehicle races into...
Make No Misteak
What's Wrong with American Beef While on a sustainable farming trip at the picturesque Gravity Hills Farm in Titusville, New Jersey, I was intrigued by a local beef farmer's comment about the Mediterranean...
Train of the Future
Imagine you just woke up. You have exactly 35 minutes to get from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, a distance of approximately 900 miles. Not possible? Well, Elon Musk has made a career out of making...