World's Lightest Solid!
AdultsConstructionMediaScience...Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission.
What Can The Most Powerful Satellites Really Do?
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnologyHow powerful are satellites up in space right now? What can they do to help us on Earth?
How Captain Marvel Survives in Space
AdultsCreativityJusticeScience...Carol Danvers received a plethora of powers when she hybridized with the Kree space aliens, but her most extraordinary is the ability to survive in space.
How to Build a Dyson Sphere
AdultsConstructionDesignHuman...If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that?
Five Firsts for Mars InSight
AdultsHistoryScienceSpace...Mars InSight will be the first to detect seismic activity on Mars’ surface, first to measure rate of heat transmitted from interior, first to dig nearly 5m down, first to measure magnetic fields on Mars’ surface, and first to use a robotic arm to place instruments on the surface of Mars (assuming it lands of course…)
What’s the smallest thing in the universe?
AdultsData ScienceSpaceWorld...If you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up?
How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
AdultsPhilosophyScienceSpaceEvery star, black hole, human being, smartphone and atom are all constantly pulling on each other due to one force: gravity.
What is Farthest Away?
AdultsData ScienceScienceSpaceThe edge of everything used to be the edge of the map. But now, thanks to what we know about astrophysics and the universe, the edge of everything might not even exist…