Brave Wilderness
Immortal Creatures Living in Florida Crater?!
On this episode of Breaking Trail, Mark and the crew are in Florida with microbiologist Dr. Hunter Hines to find… water bears! Get ready to meet the Tardigrade, a.k.a the Water Bear! Are these creatures actually immortal beings? Or maybe...
Cerebellum
Late Scientific Revolution - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Part II of The Scientific Revolution explores the latter half of this movement and the gradual acceptance of scientific truth. This fascinating period of history chronicles European society's emergence from church domination that...
Science360
Increasing the field of view -- early concept brain research
Compare a boxy 1980s TV to the sleek high-definition TVs of today: That’s a 25-fold difference. Spencer Smith’s microscope is a 100-fold difference over the microscopes used today. Smith, of the University of North Carolina’s School of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
From trumpets and spirals to floral arrangements, single cell organisms take on many strange and unique shapes. But they don't look like that just for fun, their shapes can help them with movement, hunting, and even defending themselves.
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
Journey to the Microcosmos
Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
Journey to the Microcosmos
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Journey to the Microcosmos
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Do Protozoa Get Around?
If you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way through the universe.
Curated Video
Using a Light Microscope: Steps to Obtain Magnified Images of Cells
The video discusses the steps required to use a light microscope to observe and obtain a magnified and focused image of a group of cells. The presenter explains the common features of all light microscopes, such as the eyepiece and the...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Amoebas Occasional Brain-Eaters
Yes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!
Mazz Media
Lab Safety: Prepare and Observe a Microscope Slide
In this live-action program viewers will learn how to prepare a microscope slide properly. Students will come to understand that when making scientific observations, your methods and observations must be clear to other scientists, so it...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
Rotifers don’t really get a lot of love when it comes to microscopic animals. At least as far as the public imagination goes, the rotifer is overshadowed by its fellow metazoan of the microcosmos: the tardigrade. And we might be part of...
Journey to the Microcosmos
We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
After over three years of searching for it, our Master of Microscopes has found a Spirostomum semivirescens!
Catalyst University
Microbiology Lab | Acid Fast Staining
This video covers: 1) What are Acid-fast organisms? 2) Two genera of Acid-fast organisms 3) How staining is done 4) Interpreting Microscope Image (Acid-fast vs non-Acid-fast)
Journey to the Microcosmos
Desmids The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
Desmids The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
Journey to the Microcosmos
How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
On this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.
Journey to the Microcosmos
Rotifers Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
We also don't really know what rotifers are... but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!
Curated Video
Using the Light Microscope: Observing Onion Cells and Estimating Magnification
This video provides a lecture presentation on using the light microscope. It begins by explaining what a light microscope is and how it produces a magnified image. The video then shows how to prepare a slide of onion cells and view them...
Journey to the Microcosmos
A Microscopic Tour of Death | Compilation
As strange as the creatures of the microcosmos are, their lives still revolve around the same fundamentals that ours do. There’s food, reproduction, and death. Yes, even microbes, hardy as they can be, experience death. In some ways,...
Curated Video
Microscopes: Magnification and Resolution
This video provides an explanation of how the degree of magnification in a microscope is dependent on the type of microscope used. The concept of magnification is defined, and the equation for calculating magnification is introduced. Two...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Paramecium The White Rat of Ciliates
These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.