Scorpion Science, Cloud Types, Laser Microscopes & Radiation Nurses | FULL EPISODE | S5

Scorpions glow blue under ultraviolet light. Clouds can weigh billions of pounds. A single drop of water and a laser can become a microscope. And some nurses are trained to respond to radiation disasters in under 15 minutes. This episode of Mission Unstoppable hosted by Miranda Cosgrove goes places.

🦂 The Secret Science of Scorpions — Dr. Lauren Esposito, curator of arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences, reveals that of 2,500 scorpion species only 25 pose serious health risks to humans. Plus the mind-blowing discovery that scorpions fluoresce bright blue under ultraviolet light thanks to a pigment called coumarin embedded in their exoskeletons. Watch as Lauren tracks scorpions in the wild using nothing but a blacklight.

☁️ Why Clouds Float and What They Weigh — Some clouds weigh millions or even billions of pounds, yet float because moist air is less dense than dry air. Learn the Latin root system behind cloud names like stratocumulus, cirrus, and cumulonimbus, and how cloud shapes and heights reveal secret clues about incoming weather.

💧 Build a Laser Microscope With a Drop of Water — Physicist Meriame demonstrates how a single water droplet acts as a lens, refracting a laser beam to project and magnify microscopic bacteria, plankton, and algae from San Francisco Bay water onto a screen. A experiment you can recreate at home with a cat toy laser.

🏥 Radiation Decontamination Nurses at White Sands — Licensed vocational nurse Elizabeth Ortiz at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico walks through the full Code Purple protocol, from suiting up in protective gear to using a radiac to measure radiation levels, taking culture samples, and rinsing wounds with saline, all within a 15-minute response window.

Видео Scorpion Science, Cloud Types, Laser Microscopes & Radiation Nurses | FULL EPISODE | S5 канала Mission Unstoppable