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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
Journey to the Microcosmos
These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
You might wonder why we would care if a demodex has a butthole or not. Well, we care because they live on our face.
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BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope
BONUS VIDEO: The Microcosmos Microscope
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The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
If you’ve been with us on our journey for a while, you’ve probably heard us say the phrase “we don’t know” a lot. The microcosmos doesn’t guarantee answers, and we’ve often found ourselves looking at some unusual behavior or beautiful...
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Micro organisms
This video explores five fun facts about micro organisms.
Curated Video
I WONDER - Who Was The First Person To Study Microorganisms?
This video is answering the question of who was the first person to study microorganisms.
Visual Learning Systems
Microscopic Life: Seeing Microscopic Life
Upon viewing the Microscopic Life video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that only during the past few hundred years have people been able to see and study very small life forms, generally referred to as...
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We Upgraded Our Microscope!
Differential interference contrast is not a microscope, but rather a method that enhances contrast, and thanks to our new microscope we are able to share some amazing DIC images with you!
Journey to the Microcosmos
Colorless Euglenoids Structure and Function (and Food)
Colorless Euglenoids Structure and Function (and Food)
Professor Dave Explains
Types of Immune Cells Part 2: Myeloid and Lymphoid Lineages
With the basic functions of immune cells covered, we are now ready to go through all the different types of immune cells, and talk a little bit about what they all do. Again, each type will get its own tutorial later in the series, but...
Mazz Media
Solar Thermal Energy on Earth
This video discusses what thermal energy is and describes how it is generated by radioactive decay and how it contributes to geothermal energy. Viewers will also learn about solar energy, what it is and how it is created by fusion....
Science360
Quantum entanglement microscopes advancing chemistry, medicine, materials science - Science Nation
Harnessing entangled photons to image fragile samples, such as living cells With support from the National Science Foundation, this University of Michigan team has built a new laser-based instrument called a quantum entanglement...
Learning Mole
Seaweed Forests
A series aimed at Primary School students learning all about the Ocean and its inhabitants in their science classes. This video in particular will take students through the basics of seaweed forests, something they may never have heard of.
TMW Media
Traveling Desert Sand: Learn how sand makes ice form in clouds
How do researchers determine which particles attract water? How are sand clouds interupting the creation of hurricanes? Traveling Desert Sand, Part 3