Curated Video
Radioactive Contamination: Understanding the Difference and Staying Safe
This video is a lecture on radioactive contamination, exploring the difference between contamination and irradiation. The video uses examples of famous incidents of radioactive contamination, such as Chernobyl, and explains how...
NASA
The Search for Life
Are we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all. On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Mars Takes a Breath, with Jen Eigenbrode
The Curiosity rover has been probing the secrets of Mars since its arrival in 2012. Its discoveries include chemical signatures that could be related to life – or, alternatively, to geological processes.
Curated Video
Interactions of Electromagnetic Waves with Charged Particles
In this video, the presenter discusses the interaction between electromagnetic waves and charged particles. The video covers examples of radio waves interacting with electrons and how they can create alternating currents in appropriate...
Curated Video
Hazards of Radioactivity: Types of Ionizing Radiation and their Impact on Living Organisms
The video is a lecture on the hazards of radioactivity. It discusses the four main types of ionizing radiation (alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, and neutrons), how ionizing radiation can cause tissue damage in living...
Curated Video
Applications of Ionizing Radiation: Uses of Radioactivity for Our Benefit
The video discusses various applications of ionizing radiation in our daily life, including irradiation of food, sterilization of equipment, smoke alarms, thickness gauging, and medical applications like tracers, PET scanners, and cancer...
Next Animation Studio
Flight attendants linked to higher rates of cancer
A study of around 5,300 U.S. flight attendants has found the profession holds higher cancer rates.
Curated Video
Understanding the Hazards and Benefits of Nuclear Radiation in Medicine
In this video, the different forms of radioactive emissions are discussed, including alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma radiation. The potential uses of nuclear radiation in medicine and its potential hazards are also explored....
Astrum
Are we actually in a Nebula?
What really is a nebula, and are we in fact in one? What is the Local Interstellar Cloud?
FuseSchool
Mutations
So, what causes mutations? Well, this is where science fiction meets science fact, sort of. In the backstory of many superheroes there will be a meeting with a radioactive substance - be it cosmic rays or radioactive waste. In real life,...