Healthcare Triage
Low-Value Diagnostic Imaging: Examining Wasteful Spending in the Emergency Department
We’re constantly on the look out for ways to save money in the US health care system. Targeting waste is our best bet to do so. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics points out a contender – low-value diagnostic imaging in the emergency...
Curated Video
Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves and Atoms: Gamma Rays and Radiation Dose
This video discusses how electromagnetic waves can interact with charged particles, specifically electrons in atoms. It explains how electromagnetic waves can cause electrons to absorb energy and jump to higher energy levels or emit...
TMW Media
Periodic Table of Elements Part 3: The characteristics and use of Beryllium
What is the difference between Alkali metals and Alkaline earth metals? What do the Alkaline earth metals include? What is known about Beryllium? Where is Beryllium found? What are examples of binary compounds of Beryllium? How does...
Math Fortress
Differential Equations: Families of Solutions (Level 4 of 4)
This video introduces the basic concepts associated with solutions of ordinary differential equations. This video goes over an example illustrating how to verify a particular solution of the one-parameter family of solutions,...
Curated Video
Do Microwaves Interfere With WiFi Signals?
Yes. Microwaves and radio waves are physically the same, i.e. both are forms of electromagnetic radiation. Some microwave rays can leak out and interfere with WiFi signals. We are basically constantly surrounded by electromagnetic...
Curated Video
Classifying Triangles by Examining Properties
In this video, students will learn about the concept of angles and how they determine the classification of a triangle. The video explains the different types of triangles, such as acute, obtuse, isosceles, equilateral, and scalene,...
Mazz Media
Bailey's Big Back Yard: It's Hot
Bailey is planning a fun summer day's activity with Boggs. Bailey realizes that knowing what the weather will be is important and comes to understand that the middle of the day is the hottest time. They learn about keeping themselves and...
Physics Girl
Bandaids Glow when Opening?! | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES
Bandaids and tape glow an eerie blue when you peel them open. What is going on?! Find out the strange science with Dianna Cowern
FuseSchool
Barium Meals - Why Are They Useful?
Learn the basics about Barium meals, and why they are useful, as part of the uses of salts topic within acids and bases.
Curated Video
Higher Powers of I: Recognizing Patterns
In this lesson, students learn how to evaluate higher powers of the imaginary unit, I, by recognizing patterns. They review the product rule, quotient rule, and power of 0 rule to simplify expressions.
Cerebellum
Space Facts II - Advances In Medical Imaging From Space
Space Facts II puts viewers on the forefront of space exploration, examining its role on Earth in fighting forest fires, controlling diseases (such as diabetes), combating air pollution and mapping solar and lunar cycles. This video...
Healthcare Triage
Sunscreen Works, If You Use it Right
When I was a kid, I remember people talking about putting on suntan lotion to help them absorb the sun's rays. Those days are over. Too much sun can be terrible for you. Besides the fact that it significantly increases the risk of skin...
msvgo
Atmospheric pollution
This nugget explains pollution of the layers surrounding the earth, air pollutants, global warming and green house effect, acid rain, ozone hole, photochemical smog.
Curated Video
Sorting Polygons by Angle Types
In this lesson, students will learn how to classify and sort polygons based on their angles. By observing the angles in different shapes, such as squares, triangles, and hexagons, students will understand the concept of right angles,...
Next Animation Studio
Oceanic sharks and rays have declined by over 70 percent
More than 70 percent of the world’s sharks and rays disappeared from the ocean between 1970 and 2018, according to a study published in the journal Nature
Curated Video
Focusing and Correcting Vision: Understanding the Eye
This is a lecture presentation on how the eye forms a clear, sharp image on the retina at the back of the eye. The lecture also explains the process by which the eye changes to focus on near and distant objects, accommodation. The...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists detect X-rays coming from Uranus
NASA reports that astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using its Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Physics Girl
What the NEW black hole discovery tells us!
Astronomers have seen light from BEHIND a black hole for the first time. I explained the discovery and results to my editor, Levi. Congrats to D. Wilkins and the astronomy team!
Curated Video
Understanding Accommodation and Common Eye Problems
This video explains the process of accommodation, which is the ability of the eye to focus on objects at different distances. The video also highlights two common eye conditions, hyperopia and myopia, and suggests ways to overcome them,...
NASA
NASA | Swift Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies
Most large galaxies contain a giant central black hole. In an active galaxy, matter falling toward the supermassive black hole powers high-energy emissions so intense that two classes of active galaxies, quasars and blazars, rank as the...
NASA
NASA | Fermi Detects First Gamma-ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy
Researchers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known. The pulsar lies in the...
Next Animation Studio
Hidden tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, could be revealed using cosmic rays
The insides of the mysterious mausoleum behind the world famous Terracotta Army could be illuminated by cosmic rays.
Curated Video
How Sunscreen Protects Against Harmful UV Rays
In this video, we learn about how sunscreen works to protect our skin from the sun's rays. It explains the difference between sunscreens and sunblocks, and how they filter or reflect the light to prevent it from burning the skin....