Award-Winning Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking died yesterday. As many know, Stephen Hawking was a cosmologist and theoretical physicist known mostly for his black hole theories. He died the morning of March 14th, 2018 at the age of 76 at his home in Cambridge. His family states that he died peacefully. In 1963, Hawking was...
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Legion of Leia Podcast Ep. 67: This Phenomenal Life Author Misha Blaise and Science Fun Facts! On this week’s Legion of Leia podcast episode 67, my co-host Anastasia Washington and I welcome author Misha Blaise! She’s got a great new book out called This Phenomenal Life: The Amazing Ways We Are Connected With Our Universe. The book...
Hey Legion! On this week’s Legion of Leia Podcast episode 62, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome Rileah Vanderbilt and Jes Reaves, creators of Celestial Body Swimwear! These suits are designed around space and NASA, and they’re amazing! Not only that, but the ladies are donating 5% of their profits to...
It was announced today by BBC that BBC Home Entertainment, for the first time ever, would be releasing a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray version of their beautiful and thought provoking series. The DVD will feature bonus content like Planet Earth Diaries, a segment that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the series and how they tackled the...
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! Elon Musk announced today that SpaceX is going to put two private citizens on a passenger flight around the moon in 2018 using the Dragon 2 spacecraft and the new Falcon Heavy rocket. These “two private citizens” (currently unnamed) approached SpaceX about putting them on a trip around the moon...
A System of Other Earths Scientists working with the European Southern Observatory and NASA made a remarkable doscorvery: An entire system filled with Earth-sized planets. But wait, there’s more. The discovery team asserts that six of the innermost planets are as rocky as our grand blue marble. Three of those six are within their...
What a week for 90s educational TV shows for kids. First Netflix announces the return The Magic School Bus and now Bill Nye is making science cool again for all the new youths out there! Bill Nye Saves the World follows Nye as he tackles a variety of fun experiments and refutes hot-topic anti-scientific beliefs, including GMOs and climate change...
Movies are always trying to give us the ultimate experience. With 3D, 4DX, IMAX and more, your moviegoing adventures keep trying to up their game…but what if you can be part of the growth of science by just watching a film? The MindGamers creators are doing just that. The film follows a group of 6 quantum physics students as they explore...
Over the past week, NASA has been publishing more and more data regarding its most recent Twins Study. The basic premise of the experiment was to see what happens to the human body as a result of space travel. In order to study this, NASA studied the genetics of twin astronauts: Mark and Scott Kelly. While Scott spent 320 days in space over the...
Harvard researchers may have made a significant advancement in high-pressure physics. Thomas D. Cabot, Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac Silvera, and postdoctoral fellow Ranga Dias announced last week that they may have created atomic metallic hydrogen, a feat that has only been a theory before now. If that sounds weird, it should. It...