See Microbes with this DIY Phone Microscope
What tiny creatures are living in the street puddles or pond water where you live? You can discover them for yourself using a smartphone, some poster tack, and a laser pointer. In this episode of Gross...
View ArticleThe seafloor microscope that can reveal corals’ secrets
See the seafloor like you’ve never seen it before, thanks to this microscope, the first to show 1.6 millimeter-sized coral polyps up close in the wild. An effort to better understand these lifeforms in...
View ArticleHunting for microbes in Central Park’s murkiest waters
Follow biologist Sally Warring into New York City’s Central Park as she collects water samples from fountains and ponds to find instagrammable microbes. From her site PondLife.com: All free-living life...
View ArticleMetal crystals forming in time lapse
From Italy-based chemistry student Emanuele Fornasier, this is Crystal Birth, one of the many chem vids he’s created as a video and photo enthusiast. He writes: This video is the beginning of a long...
View ArticleThe Art and Science of Conservation at the Freer Gallery of Art
The conservation and scientific research of ancient Asian art takes a large team of experts from many fields. In order to bring thousands of treasures from the East to the galleries of the Smithsonian...
View ArticleThe Master Microfixer Teaching the World to Fix iPhones
Master Microfixer Jessa Jones repairs iPhones and iPads in ways that Apple doesn’t: board-level micro-repair. Her background as a geneticist—”a field that involves the study of how really really tiny...
View ArticleEnvisioning Beautiful Chemistry: Bubbling
This series of short, artful science videos captures chemical reactions that generate gases, and the bubbles that those gases make their escape within. Beautiful Chemistry: Bubbling was filmed by...
View ArticleCollecting some 350 fungi specimens in the Ecuadorian Andes
Of an estimated 3.2 million species of fungi, only some 120,000 are known to science. Most of the undescribed species reside in the tropics. In 2014, myself [Danny Newman] and a fellow mycologist, Roo...
View ArticleAn up-close look at tardigrades and their poop
It is surely the stuff of science fiction: An extraordinary being arrives on Earth that can withstand a tortuous array of conditions: boiling, freezing, tremendous atmospheric pressure, near total...
View ArticleMicroworld Unseen: SEM images of the Pale Grass Blue butterfly
Everyday objects and life forms, magnified hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands times, what would you see? That’s what we want to show in Microworld Unseen, a new project from Beauty of Science,...
View ArticleThe Big City, a microscopic tour of Vancouver
From high above planet Earth, humans can seem microscopically small. Busy highways and crowded cities, seen from far away, can quickly remind us of bustling ant hills filled with a colony of millions....
View ArticlePond Scum Under the Microscope
For most of human history, people thought of all life as being plants and animals. And the fact that species existed that were so small that you couldn’t even see them was completely unknown. That all...
View ArticleCyanobacteria from the pond to the lab – Pondlife
In this episode of Pondlife, Cyanobacteria from Pond to Lab, microbiologist Sally Warring hunts for cyanobacteria in New York City’s Central Park. Then she takes the samples back to her lab at the...
View ArticleWhat Lives In Moss?
Microbes aren’t just found in ponds. They’re also abundant in and around plants and soils. Mosses, some of the oldest plants on land, are home to many species of microbes. In Episode 3 of Pondlife,...
View ArticleMicroscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
Go behind-the-scenes at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to see how creative conservators need to be in order to restore the works in their care. The example above: Microscopically reweaving a...
View ArticleTiny organisms illuminated with polarized light
In Life in a Different Light, above, Denmark-based YouTuber and microscopy enthusiast My Microscopic World uses polarized light to illuminate microscopic creatures. The footage was taken with an iPhone...
View ArticleThe Pond On My Window Sill, a DIY ecosphere experiment
What tiny creatures live in pond water? After watching videos about window sill ecospheres, YouTuber Atomic Shrimp created his own ecosphere jar with pond water from where he lives in the United...
View ArticleExamining Tutankhamun’s Golden Coffin
What funerary treasures were found hidden within The Tomb of Tutankhamun, the most famous of the possible 63 tombs in the Valley of the Kings? This National Geographic clip from The Lost Treasures of...
View ArticleMaking Waves: What Happens When We Zoom in on Art?
Waves aren’t just in the ocean. “Waves are a disturbance that moves through space and time, bringing energy from one place to another.” Sound travels in waves. Light moves in waves, too. From this...
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