Flying into a Mushroom Cloud
b'Red Flight: Discovering Elements in An Atomic Storm
Guest:\\xa0Kit Chapman, historian at the University of Sunderland and author, "Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table"
Flying into an atomic explosion is as crazy as it sounds. However, it was common practice in the heyday of atomic testing and development in the 1950s. While missions like the \\u201cRed Flight\\u201d of 1952 resulted in groundbreaking scientific discoveries, the Atomic Veterans of these missions paid a high price.
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New Matter
Guest:\\xa0Paul J. Steinhardt, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, and author of \\u201cThe Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter\\u201d
Science may seem very clear cut\\u2014there are things that are possible, and things that are not. Paul Steinhardt disagrees. His discovery of quasicrystals\\u2014a new form of matter with an arrangement of atoms and molecules that were deemed impossible\\u2014upset nearly 200 years of scientific understanding.'