Liquid Scintillation Counting - a scintillating look inside of a way to measure radioactive decay!

Liquid Scintillation Counting lets you measure radioactivity in samples. You stick the samples in a tube containing a "scintillation cocktail" which converts the energy given off during the radioactive decay to light that then gets converted to an electric signal by photomultiplier tubes in a scintillation counter. It's really useful for things like studying phosphorylation (what I was doing), tracking molecules as they're made and broken, and checking surface wipes for radioactive contamination. blog form: blog: https://bit.ly/liquid_scintillation_c...