Cleaning the Blue Water
In this episode of Science Live, Dr. Roger Billings explores laboratory science with a distillation experiment that purifies dirty water into crystal-clear pure water right before your eyes. Dr. Billings then uses an X-ray analyzer to reveal the minerals and salts hidden in ordinary tap water.
The episode also takes viewers behind the scenes at Acellus Studios, showcasing the Hollywood-grade equipment used to create cinematic Acellus courses — including professional Blackmagic cameras, advanced lighting and color grading with DaVinci Resolve, green screen technology, gimbal rigs, and a 360° camera for smooth on-location filming.
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.
Read more about DrB »
About the Roger Billings Scholarship Program »
These science lives are so cool! you learn cool things and theyre also really funny
Wow reshaping your eye without surgery sounds crazy.
loved this live!
Super cool experiment! Now I want to try!!!
Great educational episode!
It’s amazing how we can do this kind of
Stuff
This episode was awesome!
Hi from VA!!
Its so amazing seeing how much Acellus help thousands around the world and letting them do there passion thank you Roger Billings!!!!
Green screens are really cool to learn what they can do.
Don’t you just love R-51! My favorite part is when R-51 destroyed the lab with the blue water.
Happy summer!!!!
This video was really cool and I enjoyed watching it.
It was neat to see what is actually in our water.
It is wild to think about how hard it actually is to clean water! Great ep, Dr B!
Hello from Naperville! I like how the procces of water purification
Hi from IL! Can’t wait for the next live!
This one was coool
The experiment was so fascinating!!!!!🧪😀😀😀
so cool!!!!! i love watching this!
Hey y’all, from MS!!
I love these! Very educational
Hallo from a cold South Africa. Love the videos.
I love science live!!
This is pretty cool!
OMG DID THAT BOTTLE JUST EXPLODE?!?
Hello fromTexas! Happy summer everyone☺️
Very interesting. Lots of love from Missouri!
Hello from SD! Great episode!
This episode is so interesting, and I love how much work they put in to this school to the point where they use Hollywood grade recording tech. And the end is so awesome with the water and glass experiments.
Hello from Missouri!
Reall cool! I love this
Liked this episode!
Hello from Orlando!!
Hello from KY I really enjoyed this live lesson.
Great episode! Tuning in on a Monday afternoon
Hi from KY! Happy summer to everyone !!
this is a cool thing to learn about this
i love the wensday videos
R-51, how dare you take Dr. Billings experiment!
This was a great Science Live.
Nice science live episode! It was cool to learn about Distillation
This episode about water and particularly the glass cutting was really interesting to me. Thank you.
wow this was really interesting I loved learning about the editing
The distillation process of blue water was awesome to learn and see. Very fascinating episode.
So glad we have access to clean purified water
Nice Episode!
This was amazing.
Is R-51 okay?
Hello from Florida! This live was one of the best i have seen this year!
From Alabama I love these videos!
Hi! I liked learning about the different cameras. My favorite was the handheld 360 camera!
It is always interesting to take a deep dive into different areas that were once gray and shine a light on it.
Love this episode!
Hello from Minnesota!
It looked like Tobias was fishing for Todd.
Hello, my name is Jacob. I think it’s really interesting how there’s a new type of eye surgery for people with vision problems that is less dangerous. Anyway, thank you for the knowledge.
Hi from amazing Europe!
SO GOOD
I love this video it help me understand a lot
Hope everyone is having a great summer!
this is cool
This was so interesting!!! I love the glass experiment and the water experiment and the explosion at the end… fun though it seemed still messy!
i loved the part where they had a drone shot!
Thanks so much
hello from missouri
i love this
Good episode!
love this love the lives
Love this episode
Loved this episode!
I Loved the video!!!
PS: Hi from NV
hello Im from mexico
I think that it is cool that you can make water purified.
love this weeks live!!
Im already ready for the next live!
Georgia from Texas. Love this live very fun and cool to learn
What sounds good is nice clean fresh water on a summer day.
R-51 was very naughty for messing with Big R’s experiment like that!
How did people get the thought to do surgery? And when did it become so normal to preform surgery?
hi from kentucky love science lives always so interesting and a lot to learn new and fun things
This was amazing
where I come from blue water is called gatorade…
So cool!
I like this.
Love this
A 9 foot camera pole?!
super cool!
awesome episode!
So cool to learn about
Awesome episode! Hello from Maryland!
This was a cool video, I learned a lot
Wow this is so good!
This episode was so interesting
Love this episode!
I can tell if they are in front of a green screen from the contrast of colors.
Same!
Loved it
This is another amazing ep
I love it too!
hi from tinuseey
Hello from California. Happy Summer everyone 🙂
It’s turning Winter in Alaska
Dang California is a long way away
Hi from nc! Super excited for the live today!
Thank you lily
That water filter would be amazing for where I live. It would give clean water to so many more people
Hi, from SC. Hope all are enjoying the summer!
This was a neat episode. I always enjoy watching these episodes.
I like this
Hi from Baltimore but I’m in Vegas
Hi! From florida!
your from florida?
Hi from California! Awesome live.
Hi from florida
hi guys
so excited for today’s live!!
Hello from Washington!!
Can’t wait for science live!!!
wow awesome!!!
my grandpa had to have a similar surgery on his eyes
Hello from Houston Texas!!!
Helloooo from SC!!!
Hi from Michigan
keep up the good teaching
Hello from Texas!
Hey from NC
hello from tennesse
Hello from Paris
Really excited for this live today
Hello from Jersey ! Glad to be here
Hi from Brazil!
Good morning from Japan
Wow! You live in Japan?! That is super cool! I have always wanted to go there. It is amazing how people from all over the globe use Acellus.
Hello nc here I love my class
My real name is Bella to
Hai from Mo!!
Hi from Tennessee!
Hello glad to be here
excited for the live today
Hi from TN
This video was really cool and I enjoyed watching
IT IS SOO GOOD
Hello from Texas!
Hi from Washington!
I love this!
Hey from Delaware! Today’s live was so cool and interesting!
I love to watch these every week and learned about new topics!
hi my name’s Ella I’m from hiensvile ga
I love science live!!!!!!!!
excited for the next episode
so good
So excited for science live!
Awesome episode!
Hello from Texas.
I can’t wait to see the new Episode! : )
cant wait!!
so cool
Great video
I love it
I love science live so much!!
so good
This is amazing.
Thank you for last week’s video!!!
Hello from Tennessee
Hello from Texas I am so excited
Awesome video!
CANT WAIT!!!!!!!😁😁😁
Hey from Tennessee!
Love this
cool episode!
That a interesting video
cool!!
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hi kamilah from Texas
So excited
Great episode!
Cool episode! I’ve always wondered how that works! hi from Sourth Carolina
This was an awesome episode; I thoroughly enjoyed it! I loved listening to Dr. Tobias and learning about how filming works and how much comes along with making a high quality video or film!
Very cool that the blue food coloring stays in the beaker
It was cool to see the distillation process with the blue water. Thanks for showing us the process.
I’m really hoping this is why tap water tastes different than other water. I know all water is water, but it seems like every type I have always has a different taste than the last. It’s odd, and some of my friends swear that there is no difference between any of them, but this would be solid evidence supporting my claim.
that is soooooooooooooo coooooooooooooooool
I enjoyed this live I think the importance of clean water is very important.
I learned so much! Thank you!
Learning the process of making the lives was so cool! I didn’t realize all the stuff you guys did for them
It is amazing how smart people are to make cool things!!!
It’s amazing how color theory works and that camera is just wow!
Great job with the water experiment!
It’s really cool to see all the effort that goes on behind the scenes and how much you care about us! Thank you for your effort and hard work.
R-51 is so funny. Hi from Mongolia.
i love r51.
I love r51 he is the best
Hello from New Mexico, and thanks for continuing to have science live throughout this summer!
science live always makes me happy
I really appreciate you getting in the lab and showing the experiment – not just R51, but the real stuff. My little brother likes watching too. Also, I agree making the water blue was a better choice than yellow, ha.