CalTech – The Kid Should See This: Recent Episodes
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Smart videos for curious minds of all ages: Science, art, nature, animals, space, technology, DIY, food, music, animation, and more
How do we remove carbon dioxide from our planet’s atmosphere? What innovations are being explored? And why is it essential that we develop these solutions? “Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that traps heat and warms the planet. Because of the burning of fossil fuels, the amount of CO2...
Inspired by medieval chain mail, this 3D printed smart fabric can be both soft and foldable or rigid and load-bearing. Its interlinked components—”from linking rings to linking cubes to linking octahedrons (which resemble two pyramids connected at the base)”—were designed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s...
“There are lots of bipedal robots out there, and drones are ubiquitous. But until now, no one had engineered walking and flying technology to work together in a single robot. – So it’s the first robot that truly integrates the walking and the flying. It’s not just a drone with...
On September 14, 2015 at 5:51am ET, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime. One hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a ‘chirping‘ sound was discovered. Nadia Drake explains at National Geographic: Two colliding black holes, one with 36...
Thanks to mathematical modeling and computer simulations by CalTech researchers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, we now have strong evidence that there’s a large planet — about 10x Earth’s size — orbiting in an extremely long orbit in our outer solar system. How long? Batygin and Brown estimate that one...