What’s the fastest speed you have traveled without leaving the ground? Even in a zooming car on the highway, most people never go faster than 60 or 70 miles per hour (mph). Imagine climbing into a …
Rae Wynn-Grant
Conservation Ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant studies carnivores. She traps bears in order to learn about them. Then she releases them back into the wild. What's the most dangerous animal you have seen? …
Renee Fatemi
Nuclear Physicist Renee Fatemi studies matter up close — close enough to explore particles inside of atoms. She looks at the way protons (tiny particles in the nucleus of an atom) spin. What’s the …
Richard Blanco
Do you have more than one idea? Poet Richard Blanco also works as an engineer. On a tough day at the office, he wrote poetry. And when his poetry’s getting challenging, he designs bridges! What do …
Rob Hart
Experimental Physicist Robert Hart’s curiosity about music and how violins work led him to pour glitter on plates. And his friend’s curiosity about how a marble would move if you drop it onto a saddle …
Ryan Venturelli
Did you know that some archaea (one-celled forms of life) can survive in extremely hot and extremely acidic environments? They have been found living at 113 degrees Celsius (235 degrees Fahrenheit: …
Sara Bushmann
Applied Entomologist Sara Bushmann studies bees and other pollinators — bugs that help plants grow. What's your favorite kind of insect? Why? Without bees, bumblebees, and other …
Scott Tremaine
Throughout the Milky Way galaxy, planets orbit hundreds of millions of stars other than the Sun. And in galaxies beyond our own, stars orbit enormous black holes millions or even billions of times the …
Sean Gibbons
Microbes – or microorganisms: creatures so small you can’t see them – are everywhere. Some of them live on the surfaces of almost everything you touch. Others also live on and inside of you, from the …
Steven Strogatz
SWARMSOFSYNCHRONOUSLYFLASHINGFIREFLIES Poetry? Well, yes, and also one of the ways Applied Mathematician Steven Strogatz describes his work. The author of Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in …
