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9 NASA Technologies Shaping Your Future
Season 1
Episode 14
NASA is really good at going to space, amongst other things, but did you know that part of their mission is to work also for the public good!? It’s part of NASA’s doctrine that they must release the patents on the stuff they work on, which has, over the years, given us some really awesome things you would have never thought have come from NASA!
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16:28
Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.

18:58
Does the next level of physics require us to do away with space and time?

14:28
Nuclei are held together by a quirk of nature, without which there’d be nothing.

16:29
Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!

14:47
Could there silicon-based life beyond Earth?

17:33
If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.

15:32
Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did.

15:19
We explore Supercritical Fluids and how being "in the between" is their superpower.

15:31
These are particles you may not even heard of!

12:53
We study the most bizarre known particles.

16:13
We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table.

15:30
Let’s see how if alien civilizations will ever reach us.