It's time to talk about one of the most awesome scientists that has ever been awesome: Marie Curie. She figured out ways to get an amazing education despite the limitations of her homeland, discovered some really important answers to the...

In order to have a meaningful conversation about the dangers of radiation exposure, it’s important to be clear about just how much radiation we are dealing with. Unfortunately, the units we use are kind of a mess… but SciShow is here...

Oímos y usamos la palabra "radiación" todos los días, pero ¿Qué es? ¿Quién la descubrió? ¿Es lo mismo que "radioactividad? ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre la radiación de una antena y las consecuencias de una bomba nuclear?...

Penetrating Properties of Radiation



Radioactivity. What is it? Should we b

e worried?

It was Marie Curie who first used the word radioactive to describe a phenomenon discovered by Becquerel in 1896. It...

This nugget explains the concept of radioactivity, its types and mathematical expressions and examples.