On August 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun like never before. It will hurtle towards the star at the center of our solar system at 120 miles per second, which is the fastest human-made object ever. The heat shield on the front of the probe will withstand temperatures of about 2500 degrees Fahrenheit to keep the instruments at roughly room temperature.

Explore the science of grilling and how it could affect your health.

What the Physics?! is about the physics in you, of you, and around you.

Thanks to physics, no memory can last forever.

Even brief separations can impair the brain development of a young child or infant.

Depending on your perspective, the repeal of net neutrality could help or hurt science.

It’s pretty different from the atom you saw in your textbooks.

This Lumberton, Texas resident witnessed the destruction of Hurricane Harvey.

Two Texas residents set out on a small motorboat to join the Hurricane Harvey rescue effort.

In just one devastating month, Houston, Florida, and the Caribbean were changed forever. In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes swept in from the Atlantic one after another, shattering storm records and killing hundreds of people. As the planet warms, are these superstorms the new normal? How well can we predict them?

Rosharon, Texas is a reminder of how a hurricane can cripple a community.

Hurricane Maria plowed into Puerto Rico and shattered hundreds of thousands of homes.

Hawaii’s Kilauea and Guatemala’s Fuego volcanic eruptions have been remarkably destructive.

The mysterious substance ripping our universe apart.

When the Earth formed, most of the gold sunk to its core—but some remained trapped inside Earth’s mantle.

How the laws of physics forbid perfect cloning.

Dr. Roberto Novoa of Stanford Medical School used a database of nearly 130,000 images from the internet to train a deep learning algorithm to identify skin cancers as accurately as his fellow dermatologists.

How do we program moral decision-making into autonomous vehicles?

Do black holes delete information forever? Or could information somehow escape them?

What would it be like to fall into a black hole? Choose your own adventure to find out! To continue the adventure, watch on YouTube.