Compared to Earth
The rings of this planet are about 175,000 miles wide--more than 7 times the circumference of the Earth
Saturn
With a name from a Dr. Seuss title, this non-Newtonian fluid has weird properties but you can make it from water & cornstarch
Oobleck
After the kite experiment, Franklin invented this safety device that actually saved his home
Lightning rod
The isolation of this hormone in the 1920s led to the first effective treatment for diabetes
Insulin
Besides being the TV "Science Guy", he also calls himself an "engineer, comedian, author and inventor"
Bill Nye
Its most prominent feature, the Great Red Spot, is more than twice as wide as the Earth
Jupiter
A 1972 experiment set this more precisely at 186,282 miles per second
Speed of Light
Helping us to drive safer in the rain, Mary Anderson invented this device in 1903 but sadly, never made any money from it
windshield wiper
Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these
an equal and opposite reaction
Georges Lemaître proposed that the universe began with an explosion; Fred Hoyle gave this derisive name to the theory & it stuck
The Big Bang
Your weight on this now-dwarf planet would be just .07 of your weight on Earth; that's quite a demotion
Pluto
The accident of April 25-26, 1986 at this [Ukrainian] facility was caused by a poorly designed experiment at its reactor unit 4
Chernobyl
"Originally designed to protect a small family garden", this invention known as the devil's rope has its own museum in La Crosse, Kansas
Barbed wire
In 2019 the IAU announced the discovery of 20 new moons of this planet, putting it 3 ahead of Jupiter's total
Saturn
This Nobel-winning physicist came up with a thought experiment involving a cat & whether or not it's alive
Schrödinger
This planet is often called Earth's evil twin because it's similar in size & density, but it's a hot toxic mess
Venus
This university's 1971 experiment simulating prison life was ended as it got too real for students playing inmates & guards
Stanford University
The advocacy of John Counsell, who suffered a spinal injury in the 1942 Dieppe Raid, led to the 1st electric one in the 1950s
Wheelchair
From stinger to pincers, this arachnid glows blue-green under UV light but scientists aren't sure to what purpose
Scorpion
She said, "Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them... have enriched my life beyond measure"
Jane Goodall
Like Earth, this planet has polar ice caps--the Planum Boreum & the Planum Australe
Mars
In June 1991 weightlessness experiments were conducted on about 2,500 jellyfish aboard this
Space shuttle
During WWII a fabric mesh was sandwiched between polyethylene & adhesive layers to make this sticky roll
Duct Tape
The protons, electrons & other particles we know make up only about 5% of the universe; there's about six times as much of this mysterious shadowy stuff out there & we're doing our best to understand it
Dark matter
The process named for him exposes food (like yogurt) to an elevated temperature to destroy some microorganisms
Pasteurization; Louis Pasteur