Some spectacular images of the microscopic world.

posted by BSR 2 years 5 months ago • 64 views • 18:25

YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 510 views • 10:13

YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 241 views • 6:38

YouTube description: A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 weeks ago • 351 views • 5:06

YouTube description: A microscopic examination of dirty water before boiling and after boiling. The magnification in each shot is shown in the bottom right hand corner. Camera - Nikon D3300 ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,736 views • 4:33

YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:56

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months ago • 606 views • 8:27

YouTube description: You may think of single-celled organisms as being microscopically small, but these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that. Hosted by: Hank Green... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months ago • 219 views • 3:27

"Tardigrades, also referred to as "water bears," are eight-legged microscopic animals that are seemingly impossible to kill, having been found everywhere from Antarctica to the deep sea."

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,101 views • 4:10

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23

The ongoing study is part of a growing interest in coral fluorescence among the scientific community. Coral Fluorescence was recently found to be a strong indicator of coral health, and coral fluorescence... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 128 views • 4:05

Ever wonder how a Jelly Fish stings you?

posted by Morganth 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 749 views • 6:05

I knew that butterflies had scaled wings, but I didn't know how they get their colors.

posted by nock 1 decade 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 255 views • 9:18

Sean Carroll on the arrow of time.

posted by radx 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 536 views • 9:37

You tube : We take a very close look at a very small speck of gold.

posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 11 months ago • 3,280 views • 6:23

The Sixty Symbols team takes in some snow and writes Merry Christmas on one of the flakes.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,290 views