Seeker - Science & Exploration | Always Curious

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How NASA and Startups Are Bringing Supersonic Flight Back

Supersonic travel isn’t here for the public to use… yet.

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Soviet Spies, Sonic Booms, and Aerodynamics: The First Supersonic Flights

The sound barrier was officially shattered in 1947, and by the 1950s military jets started routinely breaking the sound barrier, and not just small fighters but big bombers too.

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S2 E19

What Makes a Sonic Boom So Loud?

Commercial airplanes now are no faster than they were in the 1960s.

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Humans Might Need Artificial Gravity for Space Travel

Despite the fact that floating around in space looks like a certified blast, it’s not something the human body is optimized for.

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Meet the First Spider-Like Robot to Explore Lava Caves on the Moon

Hidden beneath the moon's layers of dusty regolith are lava caves—caves that scientists hope could one day support lunar colonies.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope Launch Is About to Make History

The James Webb Space Telescope is FINALLY ready for launch.

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S2 E15

The Metaverse: Incredible Invention or Demise of Society?

We dive in on the two questions we're sure that’s been on your mind since you learned that giant tech companies are trying to build a bigger and more immersive internet.

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S2 E14

How the Metaverse Will Be Built

Constructing a true metaverse is not an easy undertaking.

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S2 E13

Why is Facebook Building a Metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg starred in a video that featured, along with an inexplicably placed bottle of barbecue sauce, an important announcement for the company.

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NASA’s Gold Mirrors Will Peer Back to the Cosmic Beginning

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a time machine to the early universe, which uses massive golden mirrors to capture ancient light.

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Google Made a Time Crystal That Defies Physics

Google's quantum computer has been used to create a time crystal, a newly defined phase of matter that defies the laws of scientific physics.

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Inside the James Webb Space Telescope’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA spent billions on the James Webb Space Telescope and now we’re going to launch it really far away.