Last year, National Geographic aired a documentary about the search for Amelia Earhart's plane that hasn't been seen since she and her navigator disappeared over the Pacific ocean on July 2, 1937 during their flight around the world. Daniel Beck, who manages the Penn State Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC), caught the show that talked about a piece of an aluminum panel found in 1991 on the tiny Pacific island of Nikumaroro in the region where Earhart's plane is thought to have crashed. — Read the rest
