Cogito, 02.04.2010

In honor of National Chemistry Week, Cogito welcomes this Rice University chemist selected by Smithsonian magazine as one of the “37 people under the age of 36 who are helping to shape the world.”

by Kristi Birch
Cogito, 01.21.2010

Siblings Nate and Barbara Schloss envisioned a solar-powered railgun to launch rockets to the Moon -- and the idea launched them to third place in the 2009 Pete Conrad "Spirit of Innovation" Awards.

FreeWorldGroup, 02.04.2010

Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! Learn the size of the Pillars of Creation; marvel at the minuscule scale of a neutrino!

01.15.2010

In his new book, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains how time's one-way journey is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe.