NewsPronto

 
The Property Pack
.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

What is the slowest thing on Earth?

  • Written by Katie McCormick, Postdoctoral Scholar of Physics, University of Washington
image

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

What is the slowest thing on Earth? – Jiwon, Brookline, Massachusetts

In the words of the infamous villain, Dr. Evil: “Lasers.”

Lasers focus a narrow, directed beam of light...

Read more: What is the slowest thing on Earth?

More Articles ...

  1. Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course
  2. What the Supreme Court's DACA ruling means for undocumented students and the colleges and universities they attend
  3. Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes of their long-dead white donors
  4. From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre
  5. The right way to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic
  6. A field guide to Trump's dangerous rhetoric
  7. 5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918
  8. Holding on and holding still, a son photographs his father with Alzheimer's
  9. Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations help drive the global wildlife trade
  10. We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery
  11. National survey shows that social service nonprofits are trying to help more people on smaller budgets as the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn unfold
  12. Supreme Court ruling on Dreamers sends a clear message to the White House: You have to tell the truth
  13. Domestic abusers use tech that connects as a weapon during coronavirus lockdowns
  14. What do struggling small businesses need most? Time – and bankruptcy can provide it
  15. Living near active oil and gas wells in California tied to low birth weight and smaller babies
  16. Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at 'black commons' and collective ownership?
  17. 5 reasons police officers should have college degrees
  18. The Supreme Court decision to grant protections to LGBT workers is an important expansion of the Civil Rights Act
  19. Conservation could create jobs post-pandemic
  20. What is the 'zero gravity' that people experience in the vomit comet or space flight?
  21. Here's why some people are willing to challenge bullying, corruption and bad behavior, even at personal risk
  22. Tracing homophobia in South Korea's coronavirus surveillance program
  23. Rural America is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than cities are, and it's starting to show
  24. Dead white men get their say in court as Virginia tries to remove Robert E. Lee statues
  25. Can you visit your dad safely on Father's Day? A doctor gives you a checklist
  26. How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
  27. Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better
  28. Quarantine bubbles – when done right – limit coronavirus risk and help fight loneliness
  29. Supreme Court to decide the future of the Electoral College
  30. Pandemic, privacy rules add to worries over 2020 census accuracy
  31. Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century ago
  32. I study coronavirus in a highly secured biosafety lab – here's why I feel safer here than in the world outside
  33. How 'vaccine nationalism' could block vulnerable populations' access to COVID-19 vaccines
  34. How the coronavirus escapes an evolutionary trade-off that helps keep other pathogens in check
  35. Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years
  36. What the Supreme Court's decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans
  37. US giving reached a near-record $450 billion in 2019 as the role of foundations kept up gradual growth
  38. Supreme Court expands workplace equality to LGBTQ employees, but questions remain
  39. How doctors' fears of getting COVID-19 can mean losing the healing power of touch: One physician's story
  40. Nondiscrimination against LGBT individuals isn't just the law – it helps organizations succeed
  41. Ready to see your doctor but scared to go? Here are some guidelines
  42. People are getting sick from coronavirus spreading through the air – and that's a big challenge for reopening
  43. Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
  44. Herd immunity won’t solve our COVID-19 problem
  45. 'Normal' human body temperature is a range around 98.6 F – a physiologist explains why
  46. Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the red planet's geology
  47. 'Telepresence' can help bring advanced courses to schools that don't offer them
  48. 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today
  49. COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis
  50. What Buddhism and science can teach each other – and us – about the universe