Temporada 6
Journey to the Microcosmos
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6x01 Episodio 1
Giant Microscopic Cannibals
28 de marzo del 2022
11 min
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, accidenta...
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6x02 Episodio 2
How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
04 de abril del 2022
10 min
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 of those an...
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6x03 Episodio 3
The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
11 de abril del 2022
12 min
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 green, altered...
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6x04 Episodio 4
There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
25 de abril del 2022
10 min
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 t...
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6x05 Episodio 5
We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
02 de mayo del 2022
9 min
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 what makes ...
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6x06 Episodio 6
Putting Coral Under the Microscope
09 de mayo del 2022
10 min
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 thriving in those...
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6x07 Episodio 7
How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
16 de mayo del 2022
10 min
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 seem almost ...
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6x08 Episodio 8
How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
23 de mayo del 2022
12 min
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 to unravel ...
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6x09 Episodio 9
Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
30 de mayo del 2022
10 min
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 in someone’s...
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6x10 Episodio 10
Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
13 de junio del 2022
17 min
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 moving. It’s ali...
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6x11 Episodio 11
Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
27 de junio del 2022
10 min
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...
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6x12 Episodio 12
Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
04 de julio del 2022
9 min
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 ...
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6x13 Episodio 13
A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
11 de julio del 2022
12 min
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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6x14 Episodio 14
The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
18 de julio del 2022
9 min
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 windowsills and b...
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6x15 Episodio 15
These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
25 de julio del 2022
10 min
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 cann...
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6x16 Episodio 16
Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
08 de agosto del 2022
7 min
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 to contend w...
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6x17 Episodio 17
These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
15 de agosto del 2022
9 min
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, filled wit...
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6x18 Episodio 18
Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
22 de agosto del 2022
10 min
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 small scal...
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6x19 Episodio 19
We Accidentally Grew Crystals
29 de agosto del 2022
12 min
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 these first fe...
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6x20 Episodio 20
Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
05 de septiembre del 2022
9 min
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’ depths, you’...
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6x21 Episodio 21
Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
12 de septiembre del 2022
10 min
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 gave James an ...
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6x22 Episodio 22
The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
26 de septiembre del 2022
10 min
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 suits them...
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6x23 Episodio 23
Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
03 de octubre del 2022
11 min
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 first look...
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6x24 Episodio 24
These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
10 de octubre del 2022
10 min
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 them to the ...
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6x28 Episodio 28
Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
21 de noviembre del 2022
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6x29 Episodio 29
This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
28 de noviembre del 2022
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6x30 Episodio 30
How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
05 de diciembre del 2022
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6x31 Episodio 31
A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
12 de diciembre del 2022
10 min
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 does it mean w...
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6x32 Episodio 32
The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
19 de diciembre del 2022
9 min
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 an elongated...
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6x33 Episodio 33
The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
16 de enero del 2023
8 min
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 mass that spre...
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6x34 Episodio 34
The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
23 de enero del 2023
8 min
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 the time, Jam...
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6x35 Episodio 35
How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
30 de enero del 2023
9 min
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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6x36 Episodio 36
The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
06 de febrero del 2023
8 min
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 ourselves looking ...
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6x37 Episodio 37
Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
13 de febrero del 2023
9 min
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 is a place ...
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6x38 Episodio 38
Microscopic Space Travelers
20 de febrero del 2023
10 min
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, each individu...
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6x39 Episodio 39
These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
27 de febrero del 2023
11 min
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 snou...
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6x40 Episodio 40
How Does Yeast Make Bread?
06 de marzo del 2023
9 min
As you’re wandering through the aisles of the grocery store, you might find your attention caught on any number of things. Frozen pizza. Cupcakes. Wine. And as delicious as all of those are, we dou...
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6x41 Episodio 41
How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
13 de marzo del 2023
10 min
Microbes are not just blobs. They are very well-evolved biological machinery, the product of eons of evolution that have exposed their ancestors and them to different homes and food and threats.
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6x42 Episodio 42
How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
20 de marzo del 2023
8 min
Blood is a useful substance, not just for our life, but for our way of thinking. It signifies life, but also accompanies death. It unites those who share it, but in doing so it divides others. It r...
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6x43 Episodio 43
Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
03 de abril del 2023
11 min
Our world today, the one that we have constructed, feels as if it runs on plastic. It is a building block in our bags, our bottles, clothing, toys, the list could go on and on. Plastic has become s...
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6x44 Episodio 44
Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
10 de abril del 2023
11 min
A useful principle in the story of life is that you should never underestimate algae or cyanobacteria. They’ll just always manage to surprise you, and more importantly, to remind you that everythin...
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6x45 Episodio 45
The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
17 de abril del 2023
9 min
Do microbes ever feel fear? Or concern? Or trepidation? While they can’t exactly tell us, they probably don’t– at least not in ways that we could understand. But we can tell that they definitely ex...
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6x46 Episodio 46
These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
24 de abril del 2023
11 min
You might wonder why we would care if a demodex has a butthole or not. Well, we care because they live on our face.
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6x47 Episodio 47
The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
01 de mayo del 2023
11 min
These particular little green organisms show up in the background of other organism’s lives, providing pops of color among other debris. What you are looking at is not a single organism, but rather...
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6x48 Episodio 48
The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
08 de mayo del 2023
10 min
Every time we see diatoms, we have to give it to them: they’re just simply stunning. They’re single-celled and major producers of the oxygen we breathe, but the real reason we love seeing them is b...
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6x49 Episodio 49
How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
15 de mayo del 2023
10 min
One of the most common questions we get asked here on Journey to the Microcosmos comes from all of you who are thinking of starting your own microscopic journeys and want a little nudge in the righ...
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6x51 Episodio 51
The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
12 min
If we were to write a fable to get this moral across, it would have to star the freshwater cnidarian called the hydra. Because in the hydra, the question of butts connects to the ambiguities of imm...
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6x52 Episodio 52
When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
11 min
Oomycetes are one of the more unusual-looking microbes we’ve seen in the microcosmos. It looks more like a coral reef painted by an artist inspired by Gustav Klimt and a pile of trash. And if you s...
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6x53 Episodio 53
The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
10 min
The microcosmos is home to many unusual partnerships. Life is, after all, just relationships, each of which build upon one another like strokes of paint in an epic tableau of ecology, epidemics, an...
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6x54 Episodio 54
Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
10 min
There’s a few things that give Beggiatoa away. The first is the simple serpentine shape of their bodies, and the second are those little dots inside of them. They look like bubbles, but they’re act...
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Estreno:
28 de marzo, 2022
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Última emisión:
25 de marzo, 2024
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