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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...
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...
Professor Dave Explains
Electron Microscopy (TEM and SEM)
We've talked a lot about light microscopy, but this technique has inherent limitations in resolution and magnification. The next paradigm in microscopy that emerged in the middle of the 20th century was electron microscopy. Because...
SciShow
The Microscope That Uses Quantum Physics to Trace Atoms
In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet of metal.
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.
Curated Video
What the coronavirus looks like up close
Seeing the virus up close helps us understand it. Support Vox by joining the Video Lab at href='http://vox.com/contribution='_blank' rel='nofollow'>at or making a one-time
The British Museum
Scythians: scientific analysis of the Oxus treasure
British Museum Scientist Aude Mongiatti shares some of her research on the Oxus treasure, a selection of beautiful gold and silver objects from the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Some of the objects from the Oxus treasure are on display in...
Curated Video
Millipedes: The First Land Animals
More than 420 million years ago ancient millipedes took their first many -- many many many -- steps onto land. Today they remain largely cryptic animals, as there are tens of thousands of species still unknown to science. Associate...
SciShow
Why Do Razor Blades Dull so Quickly?
If you shave regularly, you may have noticed your razor blades don’t cut as well after just a few uses. But why do razors get dull so quickly?
Life Noggin
How Could You Walk Through Walls?
Catalyst University
Major Parts of Long Bones | Compact & Spongy Bone Histology
In this video, we will discuss the major parts of long bones. Then we take a look at the histology of compact (cortical) and spongy (trabecular) bone.<br/>
Curated OER
A Tour of the Cell
The differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are explained and the parts of each are highlighted. Discover the major organelles found in an animal cell and each of their functions. Paul Andersen does an excellent job once...
The Brain Scoop
Fossil Meteorites
Fossils ... from space? Science scholars discover evidence in a limestone quarry that helped researchers learn about a meteor shower that lasted hundreds of thousands of years through an interesting video from Brain Scoop's Fossils and...
University of Virginia
Uva Virtual Lab: Scanning Electron Microscope (Sem)
Find out what an SEM does and how it does it with this online lab.
University of Virginia
Uva Virtual Lab: Scanning Tunneling Microscope (Stm)
Find a description of the operation of Nanosurf Inc's "easyScan" scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Virtual reality is used to take apart the microscope and show how electron tunneling is used to measure the shape of sample surfaces...
Museum of Science
Museum of Science: How the Sem Works
This resource gives a quicktime movie or slide show shows how the Scanning Electron Microscope is used in the world today.