We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever be
In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground—either because humans have banned carbon burning
In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground—either because humans have banned carbon burning
Many of us believe that in our modern, Internet-enabled world, information is more freely available than ever before. But according to physicist Robert Laughlin, this is a dangerous delusion. Not onl
In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe, Nobel Laureate Robert Lau
A Nobel laureate imagines the technologies that will allow us to harness alternative fuel sources and power society, despite the lack of carbon-based fuels, in an intriguing look at what life might be
A Nobel laureate imagines the technologies that will allow us to harness alternative fuel sources and power society, despite the lack of carbon-based fuels, in an intriguing look at what life might be
Erwin Schrodinger (1887–1961) is best known as a co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical description of quantum mechanics. Today, many experts also consid
Austrian scientist Schrodinger (1887-1961) is best known for his theory of wave mechanics, which is used today from chemistry to nuclear physics and garnered him the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics. Rece
