Curated Video
I WONDER - Are There Different Types Of Microorganisms?
This video is answering the question of are there different types of microorganisms.
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Much Bacteria Is On My Mobile Phone?
This video is answering the question of how much bacteria is on my mobile phone.
Curated Video
The Endosymbiosis Theory
The Endosymbiosis Theory explains evidence supporting the scientific theory of the origin of eukaryotic cells by describing the process of endosymbiosis.
Global Health with Greg Martin
One Health - thinking about human health, animal health and environmental health as one system
One health is about developing strategies that consider the interrelations between human health, the environment and animal health. Zoonotic outbreaks, where infectious diseases spread from animals to humans, is an example of the need to...
Curated Video
Life on Earth and Beyond
“Life on Earth and Beyond” discusses the origins of life on Earth and explores how scientists classify a thing as “living.”
Curated Video
The Classification of Life
A video entitled “The Classification of Life” which describes taxonomy and how all organisms on Earth are organized according to the Linnaean system.
Curated Video
Cells: How Can Something Small Have a Large Impact?
A video entitled “Cells: How Can Something Small Have a Large Impact?” which explores the two types of cells and how they function to create and affect life in a variety of ways.
Curated Video
Lymphatic System Explained In Simple Words
The lymphatic system consists of a complex network of lymphatic vessels, glands or nodes, and organs, such as the spleen and thymus, extending throughout the body. Through it flows a fluid called lymph. The lymphatic system has three...
Vlogbrothers
The Weight of Life
In which John expands on a recent Hank video to consider how explore Earth's total biomass, and how the 550 gigatons of carbon in Earth life is divided among different kinds of creatures. From gingko trees to e. coli, it's important to...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
Our world today, the one that we have constructed, feels as if it runs on plastic. It is a building block in our bags, our bottles, clothing, toys, the list could go on and on. Plastic has become so prevalent that it’s almost impossible...
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
Science is built on questions. So let’s start today with one: what do you think happens when you set off an electrical spark in the microcosmos?
Journey to the Microcosmos
Tardigrades: The Surprisingly Sexy Ambassadors Of The Microcosmos | Compilation
If we had to nominate an ambassador to represent the microcosmos, we would have to go with the tardigrade. They’re weird, adorable, and hardy, – a combination of traits that has made them many people’s first entry point into the...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
You may not want to think about it this way, but your mouth is really just one giant, wet cave for microbes. From the perspective of bacteria, your mouth is not a tool. It is a home. It is a place that provides shelter and food, but it...
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
Blood is a useful substance, not just for our life, but for our way of thinking. It signifies life, but also accompanies death. It unites those who share it, but in doing so it divides others. It runs hot, it runs cold. Whatever it is we...
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
Microbes are not just blobs. They are very well-evolved biological machinery, the product of eons of evolution that have exposed their ancestors and them to different homes and food and threats.
Journey to the Microcosmos
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
Journey to the Microcosmos
These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
The microcosmos is not always a graceful space. Sometimes an organism just needs to get around the way it gets around, even if that means looking like a swimming elephant head with a truncated snout at one end and a rat tail at the other.
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
Do microbes ever feel fear? Or concern? Or trepidation? While they can’t exactly tell us, they probably don’t– at least not in ways that we could understand. But we can tell that they definitely experience stress.
Journey to the Microcosmos
Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
A useful principle in the story of life is that you should never underestimate algae or cyanobacteria. They’ll just always manage to surprise you, and more importantly, to remind you that everything you have comes down, eventually, to them.
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Does Yeast Make Bread?
As you’re wandering through the aisles of the grocery store, you might find your attention caught on any number of things. Frozen pizza. Cupcakes. Wine. And as delicious as all of those are, we doubt that any of them undergoes as...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
The Gastrotrich has long been a personal favorite microbe of several members of the Journey to the Microcosmos crew. But while we were able to see a lot with the microscopes we had at the time, James—our master of microscopes—has made...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Microscopic Space Travelers
This might not look like much. But every day, tiny little things like this are raining down on our planet. Each one is small, about a millimeter across. But over the course of a year, each individual piece that makes its way to Earth’s...