British teen is so cool that he corrected NASA on their own data

Miles Soloman is a 17-year-old taking part in a very cool project that gives students across the UK the chance to work on data taken directly from the space station. 

One day, as he was looking at radiation levels on the space station, the A-level student noticed an anomaly. 

Encouraged by his teacher, he emailed scientists at NASA who appreciated the correction and even invited him to help analyse the problem. 

The research was part of the TimPix project from the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS). 

The project takes data from a little chip on the space station that records the radiation levels.  Read more...