Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS): From Cosmic Rays to Soil Moisture
This video explains how the galactic cosmic ray can be utilized for monitoring landscape soil moisture to improve agricultural water-management. The scale of measurement of the cosmic ray neutron sens...
Fruit Fly Standards can Help Gain Market Access
Fruit flies present a major challenge to international trade, because if they are detected in fruits, trade may be stopped. That is why a set of International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISP...
Nuclear Technique Helps Fight Mosquito-borne Illnesses
The IAEA, FAO, WHO and other international organizations that support the Special Programme for Research on Tropical Diseases (TDR) are partnering to use the nuclear sterile insect technique in the fi...
Using Nuclear Science to Improve Animal Breeding
Animals, so important for food security — they provide us with milk, with eggs, with meat.
But as global population growth has accelerated, so has the demand for animal produce – putting a strain on b...
Using Nuclear Science to Measure Greenhouse Gases
The global climate is changing rapidly, leading to increasingly extreme weather events, mainly due to greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. More than 24% of these gases, carbon dioxide, m...