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Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Torque on a Mobile
You had a baby! Hooray! Now it's time to stop building ramps and pulleys and it's time to start building baby stuff. You love astronomy so you decide to make a mobile of the solar system. But in order to get everything to balance out, we...
Thought Café
Solar System 360 Degree Tour!
Next Animation Studio
Solar-powered trees provide shade, power and Wi-Fi for the community
Unveiled in Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel, the eTree harnesses solar power to charge mobile devices, cool water, and provide free WIFI for communities. The tree's form is inspired by the Acacia tree, with seven solar panels branching out from...
NASA
NASA Prepares to Explore Moon: Spacesuits, Tools
Preparing to explore the surface of the Moon goes well beyond designing and building safe spacecraft and spacesuits. NASA also has to ensure the surface vehicles and suits have the mobility required to do...
Curated Video
Dwarf Planet Song/Dwarf Planet Haumea
Learn about our solar systems Dwarf Planet Haumea with this Dwarf Planet Song. Brought to you by KLT.
Curated Video
Preparing Humans for Deep Space Exploration
NASA engineers are designing next-generation spacesuits to support daily exploration tasks on the Moon and Mars, focusing on mobility, dust control, and innovative suit-port systems to reduce contamination risks. Training programs such...
Curated Video
Why people get so excited about a total solar eclipse
Life Noggin
What If The Sun Was Green? - Dear Blocko #5
Curated Video
Uranus' 5 Largest Moons | Space Explained by KLT
Learn about Planet Uranus and its 5 Largest Moons with this planet song about Uranus.
Curated Video
Exploring the Marvels of the Space Suit
The space suit is a technological and engineering innovation that allows astronauts to exit the spacecraft while in outer space. Learn about all the different features of this machine.
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Kimberly Ennico Smith and Michael Person Talk About Steering SOFIA Through Triton’s Shadow
A conversation with Kimberly Ennico Smith, the project scientist for the SOFIA mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Michael Person, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussing...
Zach Star
What Can You Really Do As An Electrical Engineer
Electrical engineering can be broken up into various concentrations. The main one's I discuss in the video are power, electronics, RF, and controls. Students who enter into electrical engineering will all take mostly...
Next Animation Studio
Sterile Box, decontamination station, offers safer surgeries in low-resource areas
Researchers at Rice University have created a mobile, solar-powered facility that can sterilize surgical instruments areas lacking the proper facilities. Called the Sterile Box, the station is built into a standard 20-foot steel shipping...
Coloring Castle
Planets
From Mercury to Uranus, this printable coloring page includes images of all eight planets found in our solar system, making it a fun way to engage young scientists in learning about outer space.