David Darling

Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising...

Describes the origins, characteristics, and behavior of comets, meteors, and the largest of the space rocks, asteroids.

Explains the principles of flight and demonstrates them through a variety of hands-on experiments and activities.

Explains what the sun is and how it produces such enormous amounts of energy.

Demonstrates the principles of sound and the science of acoustics through a variety of experiments.

Describes present-day rockets and spacecraft, explaining the limits on their speed and uses in space exploration, proposed interstellar spacecraft, and which stars would be likely destinations of future travel.

Traces the history of space exploration describing the kinds of artificial satellites and their uses.