Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including "The Physics of Star Trek."
The kind of physics in the article is explained in this video and is easy enough more most college students.
It is an hour long, but I found it very interesting and informative. It was also pretty easy to follow considering I've only taken one college-level physics course. It's the latest on what we know about our universe. Watch this with an inquiring mind; you will realize just how insignificant we are.