You might think lasers are quite dangerous things - but for looking inside a body, they might be much safer than x-rays.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Courses tagged with "x-rays"
A simple roll of sticky tape will generate x-rays. Could this be useful for medical research?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
To mark 115 years of the X-Ray, we explore them inside and out.
Category: Health
The role of X-Ray crystallography in the discovery of DNA.
Explore the nature of light and how our understanding has changed over time
Paul Hatherley starts to evaluate the Daresbury data.
Category: Classical Studies
Paul Hatherly explains how the synchrotron radiation source is able to unravel tales from the pigments of historic artefacts.
Category: Classical Studies
We uncover the science behind just one sperm being able to penetrate an egg
Category: Natural History
James Bruce describes how a natural fluorescent molecule, green fluorescent protein can highlight what is going on inside living cells
Category: Chemistry
Dr. Robin Barnard reveals the way that astronomers hunt for black holes, exploding stars and other extremes of astronomy
Category: Astronomy
Andrew Norton tells how a mystery in the sky was solved.
Category: Astronomy
Discover how a powerful x-ray could lead to a better understanding of planetary formation
Category: Physics
Amongst the challenges for the Rough Scientists as they explore the mine is making a radioactivity detector. But what is the science behind radioactivity?
Category: Physics