{"id":40320,"date":"2021-10-20T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?page_id=40320"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:49:00","slug":"video-emma-meehan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/news-and-events\/101-jobs-that-change-the-world\/video-emma-meehan\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Meehan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoholder\">\n<p><span class=\"videowrapper embed-youtube-nocookie aspect_ratio_562\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helping scientists find dark matter in an underground lab - 101 Jobs That Change the World (Ep 21)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gfZVKHV7O4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span> <!-- \/.videowrapper --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Video credit: UKRI<br \/>\nOn-screen captions and an autogenerated transcript is available on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Meehan is a Senior Science Support Technician at Boulby Underground Laboratory, located 1.1 kilometres underground in a working potash, polyhalite and salt mine in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists who are trying to unravel the mystery of Dark Matter visit Boulby to run their experiments. These experiments are so sensitive that any background radiation, even from their own equipment, can throw them off.<\/p>\n<p>Emma runs a lab within Boulby that helps scientists minimise background radiation of this kind to give them the best chance of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: UKRI On-screen captions and an autogenerated transcript is available on YouTube. Emma Meehan is a Senior Science Support Technician at Boulby Underground Laboratory, located 1.1 kilometres underground in a working potash, polyhalite and salt mine in Cleveland. Physicists who are trying to unravel the mystery of Dark Matter visit Boulby to run their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"parent":23849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"wf_page_folders":[],"class_list":["post-40320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ukri"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41561,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40320\/revisions\/41561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=40320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}