Season 4
Season 4 • 2021
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1. Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?
As the search for alternative energy sources continues, scientists are looking to the microcosmos and wondering: Can we use algae oil to power our cars, our airplanes, and maybe even our spaceships?
2021-02-22 • 10 min
2. How Do Microorganisms Pee?
2021-03-01 • 10 min
3. Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
2021-03-08 • 10 min
4. Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
2021-03-15 • 10 min
5. Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
2021-03-22 • 10 min
6. Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
2021-03-29 • 10 min
7. How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
2021-04-05 • 10 min
8. Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
2021-04-12 • 10 min
9. The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
2021-04-19 • 10 min
10. The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
2021-04-26 • 10 min
11. We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
After over three years of searching for it, our Master of Microscopes has found a Spirostomum semivirescens!
2021-05-03 • 10 min
12. Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
The big Roomba of the microcosmos is fascinating to watch as it lives its sink or swim life.
2021-05-11 • 10 min
13. 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.
2021-05-17 • 10 min
14. Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers
Original Title: Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers Not all hypotheses need to be good. In fact, many of them are terrible. It’s just that when you’re trying to understand the world, you might find yourself believing that there are tiny humans living inside the heads of sperm, and we're here to tell you, that's not how it works.
2021-05-31 • 10 min
15. Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
2021-06-07 • 10 min
16. Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
2021-06-14 • 10 min
17. We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
2021-06-21 • 10 min
18. Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos
Sometimes we come across microbes that we just can't learn much about, or that don't fit into a larger story. So, this week we're sharing a few of those mysterious microbes with you.
2021-06-28 • 10 min
19. The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
2021-07-05 • 10 min
20. We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
Oil immersion is an interesting and complex microscopy tool.
2021-07-13 • 10 min
21. The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
2021-07-19 • 10 min
22. Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
2021-07-26 • 10 min
23. These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
2021-08-02 • 10 min
24. Where Is This Anemone Really From?
2021-08-10 • 10 min
25. The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
2021-08-16 • 10 min
