The sun is a solar flare machine, constantly spitting out waves of charged particles in all directions. Sometimes these hit Earth. Luckily we’re protected by a strong magnetic field that directs the particles to the poles, which we experience as the Northern Lights, or Aurora...
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Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals for free. Visit or text “joe scott” to 500-500. Alan Shepard entered the history books by being the first American in space. And while his launch was overshadowed by that of Yuri...
With antibiotic-resistant bacteria becoming an increasingly bigger concern, attention is being paid to phage therapy – using viruses to beat infections. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for what can be done with bacteriophages, including cures for things like HIV and...
Lucia Zarate was a popular sideshow performer in the late 1800s and was billed as the human doll for the fact that she was only 24 inches tall and weighed only 4.7 pounds, a world record to this day. Learning about Lucia tells us a lot about how the shortest person in the world is...
Get a 2-month free trial of Skillshare at Experiments like the double slit experiment have spawned multiple interpretations of quantum physics, including the Copenhagen interpretation and Pilot Wave Theory. But the Many Worlds Hypothesis might be the most mind-blowing of all. The most...