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How To Create Random Numbers Using Radioactive Material
Think of a random number between one and 10. Most likely you chose seven — so exactly how random was your choice? Turns out that generating a truly random number is more difficult than you might think — but this video should help you get to grips with the problem.
US Government Wanted To Make The Perfect Artificial Heart — With Radioactive Decay
The idea of putting a decaying radioactive isotope inside your chest might make you a little uneasy — and rightly so. But, in 1967, the National Heart Institute and the Atomic Energy Agency set out to make it happen in the form of an plutonium-238-powered atomic heart. Think Tony Stark with nuclear waste in his chest.
Graphene Can Clean Radioactive Water By Clumping Up Toxins Like Magic
The wonders of graphene never seem to cease. Desalinization, flexible semiconductors, and now nuclear waste clean-up. It turns out graphene-oxide is fantastic for clumping up around radioactive waste making it easier to get rid of the stuff.
NASA: Radiation So Far Not A Problem If Humans Decide To Visit Mars
During the Curiosity rover’s nine-month trip to Mars, it copped its fair share of radiation-producing solar flare and particle events. This, in turn, provided NASA with a fair chunk of information to help it figure out the protective requirements for humans to make the trip. Until now, the organisation didn’t have radiation numbers from the perspective of being on the surface itself, but Curiosity has again delivered and the prospects look good, at least for now.
Super-Fast Space Travel Would Kill You In Minutes
Everyone thinks it would be cool to travel at the speed of light, which is why scientists devote their lives to working out if it would be possible and NASA is trying to develop its own warp drive. But easy, tiger: turns out super-fast space travel would be fatal.
Fukushima Fish Soaked In Record Levels Of Radiation
During last year’s nuclear disaster, the deadly radiation inside Fukushima 1, became one with the surrounding environment, contaminating everything. Things aren’t getting any better. Record quantities of the deadly radioactive isotope caesium-137 have just been discovered in the fisheries around Fukushima.
