03: Off the Scale | Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds
Richard Hammond explores the miniature universe around us, from microscopic changes to ice crystals that can trigger a...
Chemical weapons | Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
Introducing the idea of chemical and biological weapons, leading onto pathogens.
Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
Michael Mosley investigates Porton Down, Britain's most secretive and controversial military research base. He...
Radium | Chemistry: A Volatile History
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie.
Radioactive particle clean up mission | Bang Goes the Theory
Following a leak of thousands of radioactive particles in the 60's, a team at Dounreay are attempting to find an...
Using radioactive tracers for bone scans (2) | Short Circuit
Spec references J249: P6.2c, P5.2i. Preparation and administration of a tracer for a bone scan of a rower.
Using radioactive tracers for bone scans (1) | Short Circuit
Half-life | Short Circuit
Spec references J249: P6.1j, P6.2b J250: P4.3j. Explanation and animation - Nuclear decay is random. Half-life.
Lab demonstration of alpha beta gamma penetration properties. | Short Circuit
Spec references J249: P6.1l J250: P4.3l. Laboratory demonstration of the penetration propertie...
An Alpha, Beta and Gamma of Radioactivity | Short Circuit
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life using real-life examples, 3D graphics and practical experiments.
The properties of different types of radiation | Short Circuit
An explanation of how a radiation detector picks up different types of radiation.
Types of nuclear radiation | Short Circuit
An explanation of alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
Radioactivity | Short Circuit
Radioactivity | Curriculum Bites
Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.
Richard Hammond uses groundbreaking imaging technology to take the viewer on a journey of discovery beyond the vi...
Michael Mosley explores how history shaped science. Here, he looks at how atomic theories and ...
Spec references J249: P6.1d J250: P4.3d. Animation and explanation of alpha, beta and ...
Spec references J249: P6.1a, P6.1d J250: P4.3a,P4.3d. Animation and description of nuclear structure of unstable nucleus (francium).
From Galileo to Einstein, from Faraday to Mendel: modern scientists try to recreate the seminal ex...
Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the building block of our universe, the atom. He shows how the mystery of the universe's creation was ...
Introduction to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the temporary construction that was built to contain the radiation.
Jim Al-Khalili explores how Ernest Rutherford's work on the atom revealed what electricity was on ...
Rutherford stated the fact that most alpha particles go straight through foil is evidence for the atom being mostly empty spa...
Spec references J248: C1.2a J250: C1.2a. Professor Jim Al-Khalili explains the history of the at...
Scientists in the 1930's toyed with neutrons colliding with nucleai and were excited at the thought that such experiments could creat...
George Gamow believed that helium existed in the universe before the sun and the stars were formed.
Fred Hoyle worked out how the heaviest elements were created through nuclear fusion.
Sunlight is created by nuclear fusion in the Sun when two protons are fused together.
Like a magnet, protons will repel each other, however, as soon as they are close enough they will stick together.
Spec references J248: C1.2d, C1.2e J250: C1.2d, C1.2e. Professor Jim Al-Khalili explains how James Chadwick discovered the neutron. This solv...
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