Essays on Discovery

Drug discovery is no easy feat and often involves a rollercoaster of successes and failures. This was no different in the case of Miguel Ondetti who travelled down a rocky road of research in organic chemistry to his final destination of hypertension treatment. Ondetti was...

A drug is any chemical taken that affects the way your body works. These could be alcohol, nicotine or caffeine. A drug has to be able to pass from your body to your brain and change messages that your brain cells are sending to each...

In the past two decades, We have been able to detect Several interesting planetary sys-tems. Apart from the general properties of a spectra and spectral lines, other barrier that weface in exoplanet detection is stellar activity which includes several atmospheric phenomenonand is very difficult to...

Until 1990, we were unaware of the existence of planets outside our solar system. But in thelast two decades thousands of exoplanets have been detected. The first two exoplanets weredetected in 1992 but to our surprise they were orbiting a pulsar instead of a sun-like...

“In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue”, yes most of us have heard that children’s rhyme but what not everyone has heard of is the impact it had between two very different cultures. When one culture has been thriving for a while...

The study of the night sky has captivated humans for thousands of years. It was a way of life, humans could not have lived without their precious guide. The stars were used as a reference for navigation, used in architectural builds, and were worshipped as...

Medieval times were a very interesting period in history because it was the time when discoveries made and new findings were made. Fueled by the Christian belief in the afterlife and resurrection, in the power of the soul, and in the role of saints as...

Pre-Columbian America consisted of a progression of tribal civilizations from the Olmec to the Inca, and extending from South America to the Eastern Woodlands of North America. These were nomadic people that began to build settlements and domesticate plants and animals. They led a life...