Radio Waves
November 12, 2025 • EPISODE 286
How do invisible waves travel across the world and beyond? In this episode of Science LIVE, Dr. Roger Billings dives into the fascinating science of radio waves—how they’re created, how they move through space, and how they make long-distance communication possible. From the basics of frequency and transmission to early breakthroughs like Morse code and modern applications such as HAM radio and space communication, join us as we explore the hidden currents that keep us connected.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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Identifying a problem, researching solutions, brainstorming ideas, designing a solution, and building and testing a prototype. I’ve learned so much from this video. Thanks Acellus.
Can radio waves contact any device or appliance at all?
science is the best subject!
I love seeing R-51! he’s always so entertaining to watch!
I built my own radio!! It was from a stem kit though.
I liked learning about radio waves.
I love science live, it always brings a smile to my face.
live science is the best and thank you for teaching me
I really liked the Sciemce Live this week
We could not see the northern lights here with the naked eye but with the mobile phone camara we could see them more clearly.
Wow radio waves are really cool.
When you try to talk to people a radio do you use radio waves to get their signal?
Will you be doing a morse code class? I think it sounds interesting!
Thank you So much for this science live!! it was amazing!
Thank you so much for this!!!
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I love the R-51 sections of these videos
R51 was very funny and I think it would be cool if there were classes on flying planes.
The northern lights were visible last night, could have apollo actually seen them on his way off the earth
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I find it amazing how Rodger Billings was able to achieve so much, and even design computer grids, and vehicles that work with hydrogen. At the same time it is to no surprise, us as humans are able to achieve many things.
Thank you so much for everything you guys do at Science Live! I’ve learned so much and I can’t wait to learn much more!
I really loved the the science section of the video this week!
i didn’t know thats how AM and FM work
Radio waves are extremely fascinating!!!!!
Do you HAVE to know morse code, to have a HAM radio license?
Yes please have a ham radio class. That would be great.
Learning about the omega watch and how it turned out to be so useful on apollo 13 was very interesting!
It was very cool seeing morse code displayed on Science Live.
This episode was fascinating.
I think it was neat that the NASA mascot was Snoopy and they made a Snoopy watch.
A radio class sounds so cool!
I am honestly not surprised the Omega made it through testing, very cool science live.
I loved learning about NASA and going to the moon.
What are radio waves produced by? Oscillating charges. What are radio waves used for? Communications, broadcasting and astronomy.
I have never heard of the CQ trick with Morse code. It’s crazy that it means “seek you” and helps radio work easier instead of sending longer messages that could be easily misinterpreted. Very cool.
Radio waves are so cool! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Liked the radio story, learned something new about AM and FM
I loved the live today!! especially Dr.Tobias space segment.
This weeks video is so interesting it is crazy how radio waves work.
Love it so much. Thank you Dr. Billings. 🙂
i love watching science live I hope one day I can meet the people there.😁
Thank you for this video, The Nasa spaceships were so interesting to learn about.
i love waching science live, learning something new everyday!!
Interesting learning about radio waves and how they work
I didnt know the difference of AM and FM till now.
I love watching r 51. He makes me laugh.
I did not know that watches went to the moon.
I listen to Science Live each week and appreciate the topics. Thank You!
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Omg I enjoy Science live too, out of the whole week Wednesday is the best!!! 😀
we could see the northern lights in NW iowa!
It was fascinating learning about the Omega watch and Apollo 13. I would love to have a Snoopy Omega now!
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This has been my favorite science live so far i also love R51
Hello from NY! wow radios are really cool
I loved it it was so interesting and inspiring i love science.
I think that learning about radios and the science behind that would be interesting. I know that a large majority of the classes are focused on mechanics and engineering and STEM, but I was wondering if a culinary class would become an option at some point. It can be food-science focused, while simultaneously developing culinary skills and abilities. Another question, how long will the T-Shirts be in the Acellus Store?
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I love r51! 🙂
This was one of the most interesting Science Lives I’ve seen!
I learn so much from science live.
I really like Science live it is so interesting
Radio’s were pretty cool back in the day, because it was the only way of how to know about the new’s back then!
I didnt know that a Gigahertz was one-billionth of a second!
I thoroughly enjoyed this live session! Learning about the use of “Radio waves” was a very insightful experience!
Hello Roderick from New Mexico how does the lazar cool the micro chip down
We saw The Northern Lights in Orlando Florida!!
I saw northern light’s in Kentucky too!!
Where do they use Morse Code the most now a days?
Couldn’t see the northern lights from the solar storm this time, gonna have to wait for next time.
thank you for Acellus
When wil you be adding the T-Shirts to the Acellus store?
I loved the story about the astronauts and the watches.
How did NASA manage to create the environments for all the tests for the watch?
I didn’t know we could use lasers for so many things.
why do northern lights only appear at certain times of a year.
It is cool how frequencies travels at almost the speed of light.
I thought the segment on Morse code was interesting.
I like how they made the snoopy award actually look like snoopy.
GREAT science live ❤️
Learning about Radio waves was fun and interesting.
Why can you only see the northern lights in certain places around the world and what are they
how do we see colour from our eyes, the colour waves are a weird thing
Imagine how life would be different if communication in technology wasn’t this advanced now compared to the past
The sea coral is really colorful and its cool how it retracts. It is amazing astronauts wore watches on the moon which had to be very strong to work. HAM radio sounds like a good thing to have in emergencies.
The ‘how to study with acellus gold’ was very interesting in this weeks video.
I loved how the bioluminescent dye was in rainbow order :3
This is a really cool episode!
I look forward to Breakthroughs In Science every week! Especially when they’re about space!
The rainbow bioluminescence glowing was really cool
The moon landing part was my favorite. It’s amazing how important a watch was.
I bet the other watch companies were really wishing they knew NASA was the one wanting the watches!
Wow! I learned some pretty interesting stuff about radio waves today.📻📡
i actually really love r51
lots oks kids here in Alaska would love to have flight school courses here.
I Thoroughly enjoy science live each week keep up the good work! And keep making people smile!
learned a lot about radio waves AM and FM today, love science live ❤️
This was so cool to learn about Morse code! 😄
Hello I’m from Texas and last night the northern lights were in my area but I wasn’t able to see it with my eye you had to use a camera on your phone. Why couldn’t I see it with just my eye?
Those corrals make the prettiest pictures! I could look at them all day, they’re so pretty! Love science live, we always learn some cool stuff.
The Ham Radio class sounds really neat.
Wow! I didn’t know they brought a watch to the moon, how cool!
I love science live
Enjoyed learning about the AM-FM radio waves
I did not know the Northern lights could be seen from Kansas.
Samual Morse was an interesting guy.
I like the watch it looks so cool!
I saw the northern lights Here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, They were so cool!
It’s so cool that Roger Billings learned how to read Morse Code! Do you think Acellus could create a class to teach different codes like Morse Code, and how to read them?
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Greetings from Florida! Great video!
I love watching the science lives. I learn something new everytime !!
my grandpa uses ham radio
As someone who does weightlifting, I have never thought to apply those concepts to studying. Now that I know how consistent studying can help retain information, hopefully this can help me with time management with both highschool and college classes!
Why did NASA do the Apollo missions.
I have learnt so much since I joined power homeschool. The science live episodes are so informative
Can we have a Ham Radio class. It sounds fun!
why did the northern lights appear in Illinois?
How many different projects did it take to finally land on the moon?
Thanks for teaching us about radio waves this week, I never knew they were so complex!
did that lizard crawl on the walls
This Science Live was nice to listen to, especially since I never thought about how radio towers work.
I look forward to the jokes every week! Thanks for keeping this fun!
It was very enjoyable to learn that astronauts use watches in Space. I loved how they showed us what watch they used and why. This Science Live video was spectacular!!!
I love Roger Billings
I am new to Acellus and really enjoyed video and learning to set daily goals to achieve success.
As usual, another great episode. Thank you, Acellus!
That is super cool how the watches helped the astronauts make it home.
What is the fastest a radio wave can travel?
Science live is so great!
Excellent Science live. I always wondered what CQ means so thanks for clearing that up. Next time i hear that on a radio I’ll know what that means. Thanks you.
My favorite part was when we learned about the lasers
I love the radio! I find how it works so interesting, loved learning about new facts today!!
This is cool I would like to learn Morse code sometime
Radios will always be cool way of communication!
One thing I learned is that time matters in space.
It would be really cool to take an aviation class. 🙂
I love that they give people who help with the NASA mission the Snoopy award. I really love the peanuts comic strip, its so funny! My favorite collection of the comic strips is, Snoopy Contact! Snoopy pretends to be a WW1 fighter pilot all the time in that collection. His plane is a sophmore camel😂😂
Space is my favorite thing to learn about ! I think it would be really cool to go to space.
I can’t believe r-51 came in contact in life on Mars!
I loved today´s video, comment directly from Brazil
I would love an Acellus class on Morse Code!
It’s amazing how the Omega watch helped Apollo mission astronauts return safely to Earth! I also never knew that cooling lasers existed.
I love science so much there’s so much to learn
how hard is it to get a full-ride scholarship for college?
Why is it called “Ham Radio”? It should be “Pickle Radio”!
I love how the black light makes everything glow bright colors. We love glow in the dark parties!
How far can radio waves travel?
999 megabite joke is funny
Will the shirts be in the gold shop?
Loved the live, love learning new things about science.
Radio waves have always been so interesting to me honesty. I liked this episode!
Learning about Ham radio in a class would be pretty cool. Also yes -to a Pilot-Aviation class for HS in the future that be great. Loved learning about Radio waves and more today.
I have a question for Rogger Billings, How do we see the Northern Lights, and how do we know when we can see Northern Lights in are area? I would also love to have a morse code course.
I love Acellus 💖
Thank you for some clarification the difference between AM and FM, the local FM sports station in KC, 96.5 the fan was 610 sports on AM before it switched over, one of the first things I realized was how much better the sound was on FM and I wondered why.
Lasers are cool, theres so many versions of them too
I think the ham radio class sounds very cool!
I would really love to take that flying class!
learning about radio waves was so cool I loved itttt !!!! R-51 microphone was so funny.
How much bigger is a quantum computer then a normal computer?
radio waves are soo cool and r51 was hilarious 😂 haha!!!!
What were the other tests the Omega SpeedMaster had to go through?
I would be very interested in a piloting course.
what made you want to create science live?
If they used diamonds instead of the other material, wouldn’t that be very expensive?
Loved the call to Mars!
Thank you Acellus for another incredible science live, I love getting to learn new things each week through these videos!
Best video so far, radio waves are super interesting. it made me watch it twice lol
It’s interesting that during the Apollo mission they took a watch to space.
I would love a Morse code class!🩷🤯
I didn’t know that lasers can make things cold. That is SOOO COOL!!!!!
I loved R 51, He is so funny!!! I love learning things from these videos.
YES to the radio class!!!!! that would be sooooooo fun
A HAM radio course sounds great
My favorite part was about the corals they looked so cool.
The story about the omega watch with the Apollo 13 is amazing.
I’d take a ham radio class. That would be interesting!
Science live rocks! The am and fm waves are really cool.
I recently learned about radio waves in Chemistry!
Science is so AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I learned that the omega watch was the first watch to make it to the moon.
I love the R-51 t shirt