Crossroads Cultural Center lecture: "The Mystery of Matter and the Hunt for the God Particle"

04.16.13

The recent announcement of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, has generated enormous shockwaves in

Science on Screen film series: Away From Her with Dr. Stephen Wong

14 Pews

04.12.13

Science on Screen creatively pairs screenings of classic, cult and documentary films with lively introductions by notable figures from the world of science, technology and medicine. This event meld

SpaceUp Houston Unconference & Commercial Spaceflight Panel

02.08.13 - 02.09.13

On Friday, SpaceUp Houston hosts the fourth annual Commercial Spaceflight Panel during which guests can hear directly from aerospace industry representatives on commercial 

Around Texas

Take a tour of the new insanely interactive Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas

By Alex Bentley

12.08.12 | 9:33 am

The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science could outshine all of Dallas' latest additions. Here's why. ...

Diaries from the robot uprising

Dallas scientists create artificial muscles four times as strong as the human kind

By Jonathan Gill

11.26.12 | 9:44 am

When the robots take over, we can look back at the day University of Texas at Dallas revealed its new nanotube artificial muscles as the tipping point. We’ve lost the war before it even start ...

the final frontier

Star power: Google's "100,000 Stars" project maps solar system with advanced technologies

By Austin Sanders

11.25.12 | 8:08 am

Google recently released its latest science project, a galactic visualization simulator called “100,000 Stars.” The web application developed by the search engine company’s r ...

Change the world

Houston science magician named a People magazine Teacher of the Year

By Whitney Radley

10.17.12 | 11:47 am

People says that its offices were flooded with applications following an open call for the magazine's first ever Teacher of the Year nominations. Among them was one for Arwen Imai Matthews ...

Science Café lecture: "Ultra-cold atoms in the laboratory — the coldest things in the universe"

The Black Labrador

09.18.12

Randy Hulet of Rice University's Department of Phsyics & Astronomy investigates atoms at temperatures as low as a few nano-Kelvin. At such low temperatures, the strange and fascinating effe

Engineers Without Borders fundraiser: "Science is "T"-rriffic!!!"

09.21.12

Engineers Without Borders' "Science is "T"-rriffic!!!" takes a bite out of water shortages and power outages. Join for an evening of science-filled fun for all. Guests

Fit Endurance Athlete

Tragedy strikes Rice: Hotshot young professor dies in mysterious mountain climbing incident

By Tyler Rudick

07.19.12 | 2:02 pm

Celebrated Rice University physics professor and researcher Adilet Imambekov died this week on a mountain-climbing trek in his native Kazakhstan. The 30-year-old leaves behind his wife Aigerim ...