Dr. Ashish Jha, Part One: How Did the Pandemic Start?
We feature an 'interview' with our virtual exhibit, Covid Conversations with Dr. Ashish Jha, to discover the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
27 Sep 202110min
Why is Our Lightning Purple?
The indoor sparks we create in our Theater of Electricity are purple, and visitors often ask what causes the color. We explore the reasons behind different shades of lightning.
20 Sep 20217min
What‘s the Fastest Thing in the Universe? Part Two
Award-winning science fiction author Jack McDevitt discusses how we can imagine a universe where human space travel is not limited to the speed of light, and our civilization can explore the galaxy an...
17 Sep 20218min
What‘s the Fastest Thing in the Universe? Part One
We ask Caity from our Charles Hayden Planetarium what the universe's speed limit is, and how that limits our ability to explore the beyond the solar system.
6 Sep 20218min
Which Mars Rocks Are Best?
Did life ever exist on Mars? The Perseverance rover is working hard to find out by studying rocks on Mars, and we ask NASA geologist Katie Stack Morgan which rocks could tell us definitively that Eart...
30 Aug 202112min
What Do You Do When Your Space Station Careens Out of Control?
What happened when inadvertent thruster firing caused the International Space Station to spin completely around in July 2021? And what is the future of this decades-old orbiting laboratory?
23 Aug 202110min
What's the Difference Between a Turtle and a Tortoise?
It turns out that all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises - we go to museum educator Karen to tell us how to spot the difference as well as learn about the amazing adaptations of ...
16 Aug 202115min
What Can Light Tell Us About the Mona Lisa?
We ask Pascal Cotte, an engineer who specializes in light, how his multi-spectral camera has unveiled Leonardo's methods when painting the famous Mona Lisa.
26 Juli 20219min
