Visual Learning Systems
Atoms Quiz
This video is a quiz over the concepts covered in the Atoms series. This series provides a brief overview of the fascinating characteristics of atoms and the advancements in our understanding of them throughout history. It covers key...
FuseSchool
What Is Nuclear Fission?
"How does a nuclear reactor provide energy? What causes a nuclear meltdown? And how do we make this safe?
Physics Girl
Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe
Beyond molecules and atoms, how far down can we see below the wavelength of visible light? What is the smallest possible scale in the universe?
Curated Video
Introduction to Atoms and Atomic Notation
This video provides an overview of the structure and notation of atoms, including the positively charged nucleus, negatively charged electrons, protons, neutrons, and the arrangement of electrons in energy levels. It also explains how to...
FuseSchool
What Are Quarks?
Find out what quarks are, how they were discovered and why they are very important in relation to protons and neutrons. There are different types of quarks which you'll learn about in this GCSE / K12 "Radioactivity" video from the...
Next Animation Studio
Stars bolster Einstein’s theory
A dwarf star in the Musca constellation has so much mass that it measurably distorts space and time.
Next Animation Studio
Unique' neutron star system's activity captured by NASA
In October 2010, a neutron star near the center of the Milky Way emitted hundreds of X-ray bursts triggered by thermonuclear explosions on the star's surface. NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, or RXTE, observed some 400 such events...
Next Animation Studio
Rocket Lab challenges SpaceX with big Neutron rocket
New Zealand’s small-rocket specialist is opening a second launch site in the US, and will start to challenge SpaceX in the construction and launching of large, reusable rockets.
FuseSchool
Radioactive Decay Equations
Radioactive Decay Equations | Radioactivity | Physics | FuseSchool In this video we are going to look at radioactive decay and how to balance the equations that describe them. Radioactive decay equations show us what is produced when a...
Professor Dave Explains
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
Electromagnetic force down, three more forces to go! Which one is next? Why it's the strong nuclear force, famous for keeping atomic nuclei together. What kind of particles will be involved in this quantum field theory? Let's find out.
Curated Video
Introduction to Atoms: Representation and Interpretation
In this video, the smallest particle of a chemical element, the atom, is discussed along with its various representations. The video provides information on the structure of atoms and their various components, including the nucleus,...
Next Animation Studio
The Amelia Earhart vanishing gets nuclear treatment
Scientists at Penn State University are using their nuclear reactor to analyze an old metal sheet found in the area where Earhart vanished.
NASA
NASA's NICER Tests Matter's Limits
Matter in the hearts of neutron stars – dense remnants of exploded massive stars – takes the most extreme form we can measure. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope on the...
NASA
Hubble Tracks Origins Of Energy Blasts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extraordinary events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in an entire year! Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief,...
NASA
NASA | LEND: The Lunar Neutron Counter
How would you find water on the Moon? NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has a unique idea: Count the neutrons coming from the Moon!
NASA
NASA | SEXTANT: Navigating by Cosmic Beacon
SEXTANT: Navigating by Cosmic Beacon Imagine a technology that would allow space travelers to transmit gigabytes of data per second over interplanetary distances or to navigate to Mars and beyond using powerful beams of light emanating...
Curated Video
What Is The Smallest Particle We Know?
We have built beautiful particle accelerators in the search for particles that are even more elementary than electrons, protons, and neutrons. The accelerators smash subatomic particles at enormous speeds, which causes them to shatter...
Curated Video
Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Power Stations
This video is a lecture on nuclear fission and how nuclear power stations utilize it to produce energy. The video explains the concept of fission, the materials used for fission, and how the reaction occurs. The video also covers the...
Vlogbrothers
What /Actually/ Happened at Chernobyl
This video was so dang fun to research, which, of course, I feel super guilty about because, like, real people died. But, after watching the HBO miniseries, I knew there was more to the science of this. I've also heard a lot of stuff...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Working Outside the Vault: Making Neutrons Better at Analyzing Materials
Improvements at the NIST Center for Neutron Research will allow the interferometer to be placed in a smaller housing, permitting research to be done faster and with less interference from the environment.
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Isotopes
Isotopes | Matter | Physics | FuseSchool The periodic table divides the world into just over one hundred elements, sorted by their chemical properties. But did you know that each kind of atom is made up of a different combination of...
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Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fission In a nuclear reactor the controlled slow release of energy is used to heat up a closed loop of coolant which passes to heat exchangers which then boil water to provide steam to turn electrical generators. The output of...
Curated Video
Nuclear Fission and Fusion: Release of Energy from Atomic Nuclei
The video explains two processes involving atomic nuclei that release large amounts of energy - nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. The video explains how uranium 235 can be made to undergo nuclear fission and also discusses the concept...