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Rhett Allain

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Rhett Allain is an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. He enjoys teaching and talking about physics. Sometimes he takes things apart and can't put them back together.

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The Physics of Materials at Minus 80 Degrees Celsius

Nov 19, 2020 9:00 AM

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How NASA Finds the Mass of the Dirt Grabbed From an Asteroid

Nov 16, 2020 9:00 AM

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Everything You Need to Know About Energy

Nov 10, 2020 9:00 AM

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Formulas or Code? It’s All Numbers When It Comes to Physics

Nov 2, 2020 9:00 AM

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What Even Is Friction, Anyway?

Oct 21, 2020 9:00 AM

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What Would Happen If All the Antarctic Ice Melted?

Oct 13, 2020 9:00 AM

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Why Doesn't the Earth Have a Bunch of Mini Moons?

Oct 8, 2020 10:00 AM

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How Much Power Does It Take to Do the Red Bull 400 Hill Run?

Oct 1, 2020 10:00 AM

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Here's How You Can 'See' Molecules—on a Whole 'Nother Planet

Sep 26, 2020 7:00 AM

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The Cool Physics of a Supersonic Baseball

Sep 23, 2020 9:00 AM

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Hey Students! Here's How to Deal With School in a Pandemic

Sep 17, 2020 9:00 AM

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What Happens If You Smash a Boat Into a Whale?

Sep 14, 2020 9:00 AM

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Let's Calculate How Many Balloons David Blaine Needed to Float

Sep 9, 2020 10:00 AM

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Trump’s New Space Force Missile Might Be Too ‘Super-Duper’

May 26, 2020 4:38 PM

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What’s Up With the Funny-Looking Moons in Onward ?

May 23, 2020 7:00 AM

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The Science of Temperature Is Weirder Than You Think

May 14, 2020 9:00 AM

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Science Fairs Are Canceled. Maybe That’s Just as Well

May 10, 2020 10:00 AM

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How Much Energy Does It Take to Blow Up a Planet?

May 4, 2020 10:00 AM

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Build Your Own Pinhole Videocam!

May 2, 2020 10:00 AM

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Wait a Second, That Table Has No Legs!

Apr 25, 2020 10:00 AM