Germany was affected very differently by the Chernobyl reactor accident, especially areas of southern Germany are still contaminated today. Here, increased levels of radioactivity occur in some mushrooms and in meat from wild animals. In the video, Dr. Martin Steiner explains to what extent food is
Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/FuseSchool CREDITS Animation & Design: Chloe Fyvie Adams Narration: Dale Bennet Script: Bethan Parry Nuclear power stations produce electricity, which of course is extremely useful. However, they also make radioactive waste. When items have no furt
How worried should you be if 1,4-dioxane gets into your drinking water? 1,4-dioxane is an industrial chemical used as a solvent and a stabilizer -- and in areas where there's environmental contamination, safety is an important question, especially as the substance is a probable human carcinogen. T
Rain can bring life to the world around us, but if it didn't stop, what would be the concequences? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Follow Life Noggin! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifeNoggin/?ref=br_rs Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifenoggin/ Twitter: https
How much is too much when it comes to being exposed to something unpleasant? Using examples of fecal contamination on cellphones and cocaine on bank notes, Risk Bites begins to lay the ground for exploring dose-response. More information on the UK cellphone contamination study: http://www.eurekale
The three Rs Hello I am the Earth, yup the very planet you live on. There are three words which start with the letter R which I love. They are: Reduce, reuse and recycle. Do you know why I love them so much? Because they are almost magical words. Together they can make all living things as well as
Some chocolate contains lead. Is this safe? And does the ability to measure minute quantities of lead in chocolate make the product less safe? This week's Risk Bites is about the measurement conundrum -- what do you do when you can measure what's in the stuff you eat to the nth degree? It's not p
Measurement technologies are getting increasingly sensitive -- but what does it mean for risk when we can measure the smallest amount of a substance in the stuff we eat, drink and breathe? Note: In talking about the hypothetical risk from the hypothetical substance Greensave, the video talks abou
Our topic for today is Water Pollution. Contamination of water by harmful substances, which affects life on earth, is termed as water pollution. Due to human activities, our water is getting more and more polluted day by day. Household garbage is disposed into various sources of water. Many people p
From part 1, we discovered how to culture bacteria ensuring there is no contamination… in this video, we’re going to look at how we can calculate the size of our newly cultured populations. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/FuseSchool VISIT us at www.fuseschool.org, where all of ou
Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/FuseSchool CREDITS Animation & Design: Jean-Pierre Louw Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Gemma Young When we talk about clones in science, we mean organisms that are identical copies. They have the same DNA as each other. Identical twins are example
