Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: The Threat of Biodiversity Loss
Learn more about the issue of biodiversity loss in this interview with Dr. Enrique Salmón.
Visual Learning Systems
Fungi: Video Review
From making bread to decomposing things in the environment, fungi play a very important role in our lives. Vivid video footage, accompanied by colorful animations, illustrates the fascinating origin, diversity, and characteristics of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to the Microbial World
It's time to learn about microorganisms! These are all the tiny little critters in the water, and the air, and in the ground, and inside you. We didn't even know they were there until a few hundred years ago, but once we started to learn...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to the Five Kingdoms of Life
In this video, the teacher discusses the different kingdoms of living things. They explain that the animal Kingdom is the largest and most general category, including diverse organisms such as worms, marmots, and starfish. The video also...
Journey to the Microcosmos
What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
It's time to dive into our collection of spores, molds, and fungus!
Curated Video
Class
This live-action video program is about class. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Mycology
Mushrooms are some of the most fascinating organisms on the planet. But what are they exactly? Are they plants? No! In fact, they are extremely different from plants. They belong in their own kingdom, called the Fungi kingdom. What else...
Cerebellum
The Human Body Major Systems & Organs - The Immune System And Lymphatic System
The human body is a wondrously complex machine made of flesh, bone, muscles, organs, blood vessels and highly specialized systems that function together to sustain life. This fascinating third part of The Human Body series examines the...
Science360
Someday we may fill the tank with fungi fuel!
Over is 50-year career, Montana State University plant pathologist Gary Strobel has traveled to all seven continents to collect samples of endophytes from remote and sometimes dangerous places. Endophytes are microorganisms - bacteria...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
Today we're exploring the intriguing Ouramoeba vorax. Or wait... is it Amoebophilus simplex? Let's figure that out together by diving into some history!
FuseSchool
Penicillin
Penicillin is a type of antibiotic that can be used to treat bacterial infections. Really important - antibiotics can only be used to treat bacterial infections. Penicillin was first discovered in 1928 by a scientist called Alexander...
Visual Learning Systems
Fungi: Club Fungi
From making bread to decomposing things in the environment, fungi play a very important role in our lives. Vivid video footage, accompanied by colorful animations, illustrates the fascinating origin, diversity, and characteristics of...
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Land of the Giants
The official orientation film of Redwood National and State Parks. This short movie is shown in our visitor centers. CREDIT: NPS
Science360
One day, we may fill the tank with fungi fuel! - Science Nation
One day, we may fill the tank with fungi fuel! Plant fungi and bacteria called "endophytes" fueling breakthroughs in energy, medicine and more Over his 50-year career, Montana State University plant pathologist Gary Strobel has traveled...
FuseSchool
The 5 Kingdoms in Classification
The classification system organises species into domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and finally species. ‘Kingdom’ is the second highest rank below the rank of domain in this sequence of classification. It helps us to...
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - The Four Kingdoms of Eukarya
Biological Classification Set: This clip introduces the four kingdoms of, Eukarya: Protista, Plantae, Animalia and Fungi.
Visual Learning Systems
The Classification of Organisms: Modern Classification Systems
For thousands of years scientists have named and categorized the vast array of life on Earth. This series of videos highlights the major advances concerning the classification of life, more specifically focusing on current trends in...
Ancient Lights Media
Cells - Overview & Introduction
Cell Structure and Function Set: 1. This clip introduces the cell as the basic block of life: Basic cell structure in prokaryotes and eukaryotes is described.
Curated Video
Could the zombie fungus from The Last of Us really happen?
The explosive popularity of The Last of Us, the video game-turned-HBO series where a fungal pathogen turns people into terrifying zombies, has given rise to a question: could this really happen? Scientists say fungal infections could be...
Curated Video
The Last of Us is back — and more realistic than ever
Hit video game-turned-TV show The Last of Us is back for Season 2 this weekend, and eagle-eyed scientists caught a new twist in the trailer. They say it makes the apocalypse-causing "zombie fungus" more realistic — and frightening — than...
Bloomberg
Could This Fungi Save The Planet: Amanda Little
An underground system of "living machines" is going to help save the planet.
Scientific journal Cell Press published a groundbreaking study revealing that a group of fungi known as mycorrhizae draw down and store more than 13 million...
Curated Video
Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life's blueprint ++ANIMATION EXPLAINER++
LEADIN
Baker's yeast is getting a genetic makeover with scientists cooking up a plan to redesign its DNA.
Researchers at New York University are studying yeast as part of a wider project to build redesigned...
Curated Video
Bosnia - NATO Strikes Bosnian Serb Positions
NATO warplanes on Friday (26/5) again attacked Bosnian Serb
positions near the Serb stronghold of Pale, 10 miles southeast of
the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Several explosions shook Pale and raised a cloud of smoke and dust a...