The students taking summer classes at UC Santa Cruz’s COSMOS program may be indoors, but they’re ready to put in the hours to make video-games and solar cells. High achieving high-school students across California apply to COSMOS summer school, a four-week residential summer school that ba...
Star clustersare my favorite objects to look at in the telescope and I get lost gazing into them. I imagine how many of these stars have planets in the habitable zone and if there is intelligent life there. The night sky must be truly amazing to see from one of those planets!
Some are solitary wanderers; most inhabit communal clusters, huddling together, drifting endlessly in the great cosmic dark. Before us is the Cosmos on the grandest scale we know. We are in the realm of the nebulae, eight billion light-years from Earth, halfway to the edge of the known ...
We already see geometry appearing in a variety of different circumstances in the natural sciences. We find it in the structure of the atomic nucleus, as well as in greater groups of atoms called “microclusters.” We also see it in the underlying structure of continents and mountain ranges on...