Journey to the Microcosmos - Season 4
Browse all 25 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 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?
Episode 2
How Do Microorganisms Pee?
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Episode 3
Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
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Episode 4
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
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Episode 5
Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
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Episode 6
Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
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Episode 7
How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
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Episode 8
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
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Episode 9
The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
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Episode 10
The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
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Episode 11
We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
After over three years of searching for it, our Master of Microscopes has found a Spirostomum semivirescens!
Episode 12
Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
The big Roomba of the microcosmos is fascinating to watch as it lives its sink or swim life.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 15
Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
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Episode 16
Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
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Episode 17
We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
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Episode 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.
Episode 19
The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
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Episode 20
We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
Oil immersion is an interesting and complex microscopy tool.
Episode 21
The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
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Episode 22
Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
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Episode 23
These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
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Episode 24
Where Is This Anemone Really From?
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Episode 25
The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
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