Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Our high-tech devices are amazing but also kind of fragile. But a team at Virginia Tech has a solution: “soft electronics” that can not only keep working when they’re damaged, they can heal themselves. Plus: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech have been using high-altitude balloons to measure seismic activity, and they're hoping to send those balloons someday to monitor Venusquakes!  Unbroken: New soft electronics don’t break, even when punctured (Virginia Tech) NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus? (NASA) Our Patreon backers keep us working, join them today! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message