Journey to the Microcosmos

  • Premieret: Jun 2019
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Giant Microscopic Cannibals
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Mar 28, 2022
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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How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
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Apr 04, 2022
We’re starting this episode out with a question that we’re never going to have a good answer for: how many cells do animals have? How could we ever hope to count all those cells in each .. show full overview
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The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
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Apr 11, 2022
Somewhere around 470 million years ago, something happened that shouldn’t have been particularly striking. An algae found its way onto land. This algae turned the lands of this earth .. show full overview
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There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
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Apr 25, 2022
When you’re in the business of hunting for microbes, sometimes you have to send some weird emails. That’s why James, our master of microscopes, sat down one day to send his own strange request to the people at Coralaxy, a coral farm in Germany.
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We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
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Maj 02, 2022
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 .. show full overview
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Putting Coral Under the Microscope
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Maj 09, 2022
James, our master of microscopes, recently received a package from a coral farm in Germany. We’ve explored some of the microscopic creatures and bristle worms that were living and .. show full overview
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How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
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Maj 16, 2022
We’re going to see a type of motion over and over again because it’s all over the microcosmos, found in and around many different types of organisms. And this kind of random motion may .. show full overview
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How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
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Maj 23, 2022
For an activity that mostly involves sitting and staring, microscopy is a surprisingly high stakes task. On the other side of the lens are drops full of potential, a multitude of worlds .. show full overview
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Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
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Maj 30, 2022
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 .. show full overview
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Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
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Jun 13, 2022
This Loxodes magnus is large, so large that it was able to eat a rotifer, those funny animals we often see getting bullied by their single-celled neighbors. Except, that rotifer is .. show full overview
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The Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
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Jun 27, 2022
At first glance, they seem a bit more like plants or a series of flowers with thin, elegant petals. But no, they are indeed an animal. One that has the dubious honor of being defined largely by its anus.
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Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
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Jul 04, 2022
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
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Jul 11, 2022
The theme of today's episode is pretty simple: things we never thought we’d be showing you, but here we are.
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The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
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Jul 18, 2022
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 .. show full overview
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These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
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Jul 25, 2022
From our vantage point, as relatively large organisms, it can be easy to overlook the microcosmos, because it’s simply too small to see. It floats in front of our eyes at all times, and yet we cannot make out details until we turn to other tools.
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Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
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Aug 08, 2022
Tardigrades have been through a lot. They’ve been sent to the moon. They’ve had the moisture sapped out of them. At times, they’ve been in extreme heat. And at other times, they’ve had .. show full overview
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These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
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Aug 15, 2022
The ciliates we’re going to talk about today are kind of…frustrating. At this point in our journey, we’ve gotten used to the fact that the microcosmos is an indecipherable mess at times, .. show full overview
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Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
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Aug 22, 2022
The microcosmos might seem like a safe place from a surprise spider attack, but it would be misleading to pretend that it’s completely free of spider-like sightings. Because even at this .. show full overview
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We Accidentally Grew Crystals
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Aug 29, 2022
Usually on Journey to the Microcosmos, we spend our time looking at living organisms, things like insects, plants, and microbes that move and breathe and grow and die. But today, for .. show full overview
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Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
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Sep 05, 2022
Depending on your love of horror stories or your belief in the supernatural, it might be easy to convince you that lakes are full of ghosts. That as you plunge deeper into these lakes’ .. show full overview
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Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
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Sep 12, 2022
When James first saw these bacteria, all he knew is that they came from a sample taken from a Portuguese beach. And on the slide, the bacteria were swimming in a stark line. And that .. show full overview
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The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
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Sep 26, 2022
Our oceans and lakes are filled with copepods, a myriad of small crustacean species that might float as plankton or infect other creatures1. And as they’re living in whatever manner best .. show full overview
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Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
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Okt 03, 2022
This is kentrophoros, a ciliate that James—our master of microscopes—had been searching for, receiving samples from all over the world in the hopes of finding it gliding around. When you .. show full overview
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These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
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Okt 10, 2022
As animals, we owe a lot to the single-celled organisms that came before us. These are the organisms that laid the chemical groundwork for how we live, from the DNA and proteins within .. show full overview
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Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
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Okt 17, 2022
One day, James—our master of microscopes—was cleaning the marine tanks that some of his organisms live in when he noticed this creature. It was hard to miss given that it was visible to .. show full overview
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Sand Is Full of Life and Death
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Nov 07, 2022
James, our master of microscopes, gets samples of sand from beaches all over the world to help in his quest to learn more about interstitial ciliates—the single-celled organisms that .. show full overview
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The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
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Nov 14, 2022
If you’ve ever wondered what it might take to upset a microscopist, just ask James—our master of microscopes—his feelings about tardigrade legs. Yes, tardigrade legs. Those chunky, .. show full overview
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Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
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Nov 21, 2022
It’s fun to watch organisms eat in the microcosmos. There’s a whole range of methods to enjoy. And at the core of all this is a simple, universal need: energy, stored chemically as .. show full overview
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This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
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Nov 28, 2022
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 .. show full overview
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How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
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Dec 05, 2022
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 .. show full overview
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A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
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Dec 12, 2022
Sometimes our journey through the microcosmos feels like an expedition, a voyage filled with deep dives into the masses of organisms basking under the glow of our microscope. So what .. show full overview
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What Do We Have in Common With the Undulating Peranema?
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Dec 19, 2022
Watching this Peranema feels a bit like watching a cat waffling back and forth between whether or not it wants to take a nap. Sometimes the Peranema stretches, its body undulating into .. show full overview
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The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
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Jan 16, 2023
Imagine that this is the beginning of the last thing you’ll ever see, an empty landscape with thin lines scratched across it. But those lines suddenly sharpen and gather into a dense .. show full overview
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The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
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Jan 23, 2023
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 .. show full overview
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How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
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Jan 30, 2023
Science is built on questions. So let’s start today with one: what do you think happens when you set off an electrical spark in the microcosmos?
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The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
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Feb 06, 2023
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 .. show full overview
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Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
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Feb 13, 2023
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 .. show full overview
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Microscopic Space Travelers
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Feb 20, 2023
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, .. show full overview
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These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
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Feb 27, 2023
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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