Journey to the Microcosmos
The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
Visual Learning Systems
What Is Science?: What Makes Science Fun?
This instructive video describes what makes science different from other disciplines, while highlighting many exciting science career opportunities. Concepts and terminology: observing, solving problems, health, career, education, and...
Visual Learning Systems
The Microscope: Early Microscopes
While the microscope is one of the most exciting pieces of laboratory equipment, it is also one of the most expensive and fragile. This video illustrates how to safely and effectively use a variety of microscopes commonly found in the...
Journey to the Microcosmos
How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
To study organisms at the genetic level, we need their DNA. Which means that we need to be able to wade through all the bits and pieces lying within their tiny bodies to pick out something even tinier—something we can’t just dig out with...
Journey to the Microcosmos
We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
We’ve spent most of our journey through the microcosmos seeking out the organisms that are too small to see with just the human eye. The bacteria, the ciliates, the tardigrades. Part of what makes them so exciting to find is that they...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
It’s often said that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. And surely there is no greater proof of that than the home of our master of microscopes, James. All along the windowsills and bookshelves are jars and tanks full of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
We Accidentally Grew Crystals
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Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
You’ve heard those worm horror stories, right? Stories of painful stomach cramps or diarrhea or nausea that eventually turns out to be caused by some worms that have taken up residence in someone’s intestines. It’s so terrifying and wild...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Giant Microscopic Cannibals
Every experiment has to start somewhere. This one began with a container full of dying microbes, and the five cute, pink ciliates called blepharisma that James, our master of microscopes, accidentally turned into a group of cannibals.
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Microscopy-I
It explains the basic principle of working of a compound microscope and lists various types of microscopes used to view biological material.
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This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
If you’ve been following James, our master of microscopes, on some of his other platforms, then you know what’s coming. You know that James has published his first academic paper, it's about this extraordinarily rare ciliate that you see...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
James, our master of microscopes, is not a farmer. He is, to put it simply, fascinated by microbes. And that may lead him to strange places and cause him to grow tanks full of weird things. But he is not a farmer.
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A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
The theme of today's episode is pretty simple: things we never thought we’d be showing you, but here we are.
Curated Video
The Discovery of Cells
In this section, I talk about the history of the cell theory, what the cell theory is, the 2 types of microscopes and the 2 basic cell types.
Journey to the Microcosmos
Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
When we look at bacteria under a microscope, they appear to be tumbling around chaotically, but over the centuries we realized that their pathways have a purpose.
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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants: The Development of Pollen
Plant Reproduction Set: 3. This clip explains the step by step process of pollen formation in flowering plants.
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The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
Visual Learning Systems
The Microscope: Using the Microscope
While the microscope is one of the most exciting pieces of laboratory equipment, it is also one of the most expensive and fragile. This video illustrates how to safely and effectively use a variety of microscopes commonly found in the...
Journey to the Microcosmos
BONUS VIDEO The Microcosmos Microscope
BONUS VIDEO The Microcosmos Microscope
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How to use a Microscope
If you were alive 200 years ago you would have been given some very strange advice on how to avoid getting ill. You might have been told to carry sweet smelling flowers with you or avoid going to smelly places. This was because at that...
Visual Learning Systems
The Microscope: Types of Microscopes and Their Functions
This video provides an overview of the different types of microscopes used by scientists. It introduces the compound light microscope, which is commonly used in science classrooms, and explains how it works to magnify objects. The video...
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Light Microscopy: Function and Utility
Now that we know a bit about the history of microscopy, let's dig into the first form that existed, light microscopy. This is the form that is familiar to most of us, as the microscopes we all looked through in high school biology class...
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We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!