Journey to the Microcosmos (2019) Web Series — Cast, Story & Where to Watch | MovieLinkBD

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Journey to the Microcosmos — Storyline

Take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we want to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Hank Green
• Starring: Hank Green

Journey to the Microcosmos — Series Details

Journey to the Microcosmos — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Meet the Microcosmos (2019-06-24) — Join us on the first episode of Journey to the Microcosmos as we take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, an
• E2: How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch (2019-07-01) — On this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.
• E3: Stentors: Single-Celled Giants (2019-07-08) — It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE!
• E4: How Do Microorganisms Reproduce? (2019-07-15) — How do stentors make more stentors? Does Paramecium reproduce sexually or asexually? Find out on this week's journey as we explore the ways the microcosmos reproduce!
• E5: Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? – A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory (2019-07-22) — 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and as
• E6: Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal (2019-07-29) — We know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's j
• E7: How Do Protozoa Get Around? (2019-08-05) — If you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way throug
• E8: Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space (2019-08-12) — We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!
• E9: Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures (2019-08-20) — Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do… something… that we'll figure out someday… prob
• E10: How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive? (2019-08-26) — In the microcosmos, it's dangerous to go alone. This week we go on a journey into colonies to find out why sticking together is such a great strategy!
• E11: Death in the Microcosmos (2019-09-02) — Death is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.
• E12: Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters (2019-09-09) — Euglenoids have had a very, very long time to evolve, and that has led to the things they have evolved into being extremely diverse—so diverse that, combined with the varied shape-
• E13: Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal (2019-09-16) — The hydra of mythology may not be as far off from reality as you think! Let's take a journey to the mall to meet our tentacled, regenerating friends!
• E14: Relax and Enjoy the View (2019-09-23) — This week, we're taking a bit of a break, but we thought you might also like one. So, today, let's all just sit and look at our lovely little friends while we take a breath and enj
• E15: Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted (2019-10-01) — Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life…a chall
• E16: Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored (2019-10-07) — We also don't really know what rotifers are… but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!
• E17: The Microscopic Circle of Life (2019-10-14) — 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 spec
• E18: Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters (2019-10-21) — Yes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!
• E19: The Colors of the Microcosmos (2019-10-28) — We see the colors of the microcosmos every single week, but let's stop and ask why our some microbes are bright green, while others are a golden brown.
• E20: Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades (2019-11-04) — This week, the microcosmos meet the cosmos as we explore even more fascinating things about our friend, the tardigrade. We'll discuss their weird weird mouths, how we take care of
• E21: Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans? (2019-11-11) — Where is the line between good and bad microorganisms and why do we seem to know so much more about the bad ones?
• E22: Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates (2019-11-18) — These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.
• E23: Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink (2019-11-25) — Microbes are used for everything from baking to brewing, but wastewater treatment is where they do some of their most important work.
• E24: What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions) (2019-12-03)
• E25: What Humans and Stentors Have in Common (2019-12-09) — This week, we're diving back into the world of Stentors to find out what humans and Stentors have in common!
• E26: Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers (2019-12-16) — These little hairy-bellied friends lead a very interesting life, albeit a short one.
• E27: We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It? (2019-12-23) — This week's journey comes to you unedited and in real-time as we explore a mysterious infection.
• E28: What If All the Microbes Disappeared? (2019-12-31) — In a world without microbes, this channel wouldn't exist. But there are other, more important things that would stop existing as well, and today we're going to explore just what co
• E29: Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals (2020-01-06)
• E30: Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything (2020-01-14)

Season 2

• E1: We Filmed Tardigrade Sex! (2020-01-27) — In our Season 2 debut, we're diving back into the world of our favorite little water bear friends!
• E2: The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy (2020-02-03) — Original Title: Our Tardigrade Had Babies!
• E3: Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro (2020-02-10)
• E4: How to Identify Microbes (2020-02-17) — When there are over one trillion species, it can be hard to determine what you're looking at on your microscope. Thankfully we've got some helpful tips for you!
• E5: How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World (2020-02-24)
• E6: Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies (2020-03-02)
• E7: The Microcosmos of the 1800s – The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (2020-03-10)
• E8: How We Find Our Microbes (2020-03-16)
• E9: The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium (2020-03-23)
• E10: Synura: Smelly, Flowery Confetti (2020-03-30)
• E11: How to Survive the Microcosmos (2020-04-07)
• E12: What Is the Point of Sex? (2020-04-13)
• E13: What Are These Vorticella up To? (2020-04-20) — Original Title: 12 Minutes in the Life of Vorticella
• E14: Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder (2020-04-28)
• E15: Making Decisions Without a Brain (2020-05-04) — Making decisions can be pretty hard, but imagining trying to do it without a brain!
• E16: Peritrich Ciliates: Masters of Long-Range Snacking (2020-05-11)
• E17: The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos (2020-05-18) — Even in the microcosmos, it's important to stay inside if you want to avoid a virus.
• E18: The Micro World Right Under Your Feet (2020-05-25)
• E19: Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers (2020-06-01) — A lot of the microbes we show you are completely naked, but the test amoeba is a bit more modest.
• E20: Colorless Euglenoids: Structure and Function (and Food) (2020-06-15) — There’s something you probably heard a lot in biology class. And no, it's not “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”…
• E21: The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis (2020-06-23) — The world of microscopy is not without its own controversial figures, today we’re discussing Lynn Margulis and her contributions to the world of science as well as some of her more
• E22: The Microbe You Eat All The Time (2020-06-29) — Yeast: the most coveted microbe during this pandemic. This week we’re taking a close look at the little guys that make up our bread and beer and the vital role they’ve had for thou
• E23: How to Name a Microbe (2020-07-06) — There’s a story behind every microbe’s name, and that of the Phacus smulkowskianus is surprisingly sweet.
• E24: Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides (2020-07-13) — Sometimes, pictures and videos aren’t enough. Sometimes the best way to share what you’ve seen under the microscope is, well, to share the actual thing you’re looking at.
• E25: Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World (2020-07-20) — The goal of phylogenetic trees is to track the organisms we know of through their place in evolution.

Season 3

• E1: We Upgraded Our Microscope! (2020-08-10) — Differential interference contrast is not a microscope, but rather a method that enhances contrast, and thanks to our new microscope we are able to share some amazing DIC images wi
• E2: How Do Microorganisms Poop? (2020-08-17) — Everybody poops, but how does one poop when one does not have a butthole?
• E3: Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes (2020-08-24)
• E4: Our Paramecia Are Infected (2020-08-31) — We recently discovered some Holospora infecting one of our Paramecium samples. How does that happen? How does the Holospora get in there? And how are they so successful at infectin
• E5: Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators (2020-09-07)
• E6: The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes (2020-09-14) — Arthrobotrys is a genus of fungi that not only kills nematodes, but it also sets traps in order to catch them!
• E7: Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate (2020-09-21) — On the surface, Ophyroglena seems like it should be pretty easy to identify, but it all depends on which stage of life it's currently in.
• E8: Can Microbes See Without Eyes? (2020-09-29)
• E9: Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist? (2020-10-05) — Are you immortal if you never age? Defying death is not as clear-cut as it might initially seem. What we define as immortality depends a bit on what you think it means to die.
• E10: Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller (2020-10-12)
• E11: Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter (2020-11-02)
• E12: Some Water Bears Live on Land (2020-11-09)
• E13: The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba (2020-11-16) — Today we're exploring the intriguing Ouramoeba vorax. Or wait… is it Amoebophilus simplex? Let's figure that out together by diving into some history!
• E14: This Ciliate Is About to Die (2020-11-23) — It's time to explore a big question while we watch a ciliate go through its last moments.
• E15: Strange Stentor Stories (2020-11-30) — Our giant Stentor friends are back with more strange stories about these mysterious giants!
• E16: The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates (2020-12-08) — Alfred Kahl only spent a decade in the world of the microcosmos, but in that time he discovered more ciliates than anyone else ever has!
• E17: How Did Multicellularity Evolve? (2020-12-14)
• E18: Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine (2020-12-21) — It may not be the super rare tentacled ciliate we were looking for, but it's still a really cool super rare tentacled ciliate!
• E19: Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside (2020-12-28) — We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!
• E20: Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes? (2021-01-04) — Bacterial flagella are very hard to spot in our footage, but we see evidence of them in almost every single one of our videos. The question is, how do they work, and are they diffe
• E21: Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut (2021-01-12)
• E22: Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant? (2021-01-18)
• E23: Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates (2021-01-25)
• E24: Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet (2021-02-01)

Season 4

• E1: Can Algae Fuel Our Cars? (2021-02-22) — 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 ev
• E2: How Do Microorganisms Pee? (2021-03-01)
• E3: Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation (2021-03-08)
• E4: Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors (2021-03-15)
• E5: Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood (2021-03-22)
• E6: Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes (2021-03-29)
• E7: How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells (2021-04-05)
• E8: Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes (2021-04-12)
• E9: The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos (2021-04-19)
• E10: The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates (2021-04-26)
• E11: We Found a Super Rare Microbe! (2021-05-03) — After over three years of searching for it, our Master of Microscopes has found a Spirostomum semivirescens!
• E12: Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums (2021-05-11) — The big Roomba of the microcosmos is fascinating to watch as it lives its sink or swim life.
• E13: The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos (2021-05-17) — 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 th
• E14: Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers (2021-05-31) — 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 unders

• E15: Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos (2021-06-07)
• E16: Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies (2021-06-14)
• E17: We Upgraded Our Microscope… Again! (2021-06-21)
• E18: Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos (2021-06-28) — 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 yo
• E19: The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra (2021-07-05)
• E20: We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail (2021-07-13) — Oil immersion is an interesting and complex microscopy tool.
• E21: The Secret Things Living In Your Drains (2021-07-19)
• E22: Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos (2021-07-26)
• E23: These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out (2021-08-02)
• E24: Where Is This Anemone Really From? (2021-08-10)
• E25: The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite (2021-08-16)

Season 5

• E1: The Dark History of Sea Monkeys (2021-08-30)
• E2: What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread? (2021-09-06) — It's time to dive into our collection of spores, molds, and fungus!
• E3: Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light? (2021-09-13)
• E4: The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen (2021-09-20) — “But wait!” you might be saying to yourself. “How can an organism be photosynthetic and so afraid of oxygen? Doesn’t photosynthesis create oxygen?” And yes, you would be correct—mo
• E5: Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight (2021-10-11) — There are only a few groups of bacteria that do this kind of gliding, but they’re found across a plethora of environments, including ponds, soil, and, surprise, in our own mouths.
• E6: Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer (2021-10-19) — Rotifers don’t really get a lot of love when it comes to microscopic animals. At least as far as the public imagination goes, the rotifer is overshadowed by its fellow metazoan of
• E7: The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice (2021-10-25) — Arugulus sure know how to get under a fish's skin, literally.

  Fish will actually throw themselves out of the water to get an Aruglus off of their side.

• E8: Tumbling Down Invisible Highways (2021-11-02) — When we look at bacteria under a microscope, they appear to be tumbling around chaotically, but over the centuries we realized that their pathways have a purpose.
• E9: The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze (2021-11-08)
• E10: Dileptus: The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite (2021-11-15)
• E11: Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton (2021-11-22) — Scientists have observed some copepods eating over 300,000 diatoms in a single day!
• E12: Microbes in Slow Motion (2021-11-30) — While our journeys are often enjoyed at a slow pace, when we go just a little bit slower and look a little bit deeper there’s always something new to find.
• E13: The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis (2021-12-07)
• E14: Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish (2021-12-13)
• E15: Creepy Crawly Close-Ups (2021-12-27)
• E16: Adventures in Being Eaten (2022-01-03)
• E17: The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos (2022-01-11)
• E18: The Double Life of a Fake Jellyfish (2022-01-17)
• E19: The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms (2022-01-25) — We often focus on the organisms, but what about the even smaller world inside of them?
• E20: Microbe Hunting in Antarctica (2022-01-31)
• E21: Nematodes: The Worm That Sculpted The World (2022-02-14) — When it comes to the muses of the animal kingdom, the nematode seems like an unlikely well of inspiration, but over the past century, they’ve become one nonetheless.
• E22: Aeolosoma: Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms (2022-02-21) — Worms, despite their seemingly simple bodies, are a diverse bunch. Which is why we thought that for today, it might be fun to visit with a less famous worm, and like one of those r
• E23: What Even Is A Species? (2022-02-28) — If you know about the species Lacrymaria olor, then you know what you’re getting when you see it under a microscope. It has a distinct shape, a distinct way of life—the combination
• E24: The Spatula-Shaped Ciliate Family (2022-03-07) — The family Spathidiidae is made up of around 20 genera, which encompass around 250 known species. And there’s a lot of variety in the Spathidiid family to sort through.

Season 6

• E1: Giant Microscopic Cannibals (2022-03-28) — 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 micro
• E2: How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal? (2022-04-04) — 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
• E3: The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants (2022-04-11) — 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 ear
• E4: There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm (2022-04-25) — 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 str
• E5: We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm! (2022-05-02) — 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. Pa
• E6: Putting Coral Under the Microscope (2022-05-09) — 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
• E7: How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms (2022-05-16) — 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
• E8: How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe (2022-05-23) — 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 w
• E9: Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts (2022-05-30) — 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 resid
• E10: Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive? (2022-06-13) — 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
• E11: Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts (2022-06-27) — 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 defin
• E12: Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation (2022-07-04) — 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 weir
• E13: A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things (2022-07-11) — The theme of today's episode is pretty simple: things we never thought we’d be showing you, but here we are.
• E14: The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction (2022-07-18) — 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
• E15: These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them (2022-07-25) — 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
• E16: Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office (2022-08-08) — 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
• E17: These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating (2022-08-15) — 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
• E18: Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop (2022-08-22) — 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 a
• E19: We Accidentally Grew Crystals (2022-08-29) — 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, f
• E20: Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses (2022-09-05) — 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 la
• E21: Bacteria That Only Want To Head North (2022-09-12) — 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 th
• E22: The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers (2022-09-26) — 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 manne
• E23: Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks (2022-10-03) — 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. Wh
• E24: These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together (2022-10-10) — 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 wi
• E25: Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large? (2022-10-17)
• E26: Sand Is Full of Life and Death (2022-11-07)
• E27: The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate (2022-11-14)
• E28: Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell? (2022-11-21)
• E29: This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times (2022-11-28)
• E30: How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate (2022-12-05)
• E31: A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord (2022-12-12) — 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 wh
• E32: The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball (2022-12-19) — 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
• E33: The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies (2023-01-16) — 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 den
• E34: The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs (2023-01-23) — 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
• E35: How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos (2023-01-30) — 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?
• E36: The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff (2023-02-06) — 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 o
• E37: Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes (2023-02-13) — 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 hom
• E38: Microscopic Space Travelers (2023-02-20) — 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 ye
• E39: These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA (2023-02-27) — 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
• E40: How Does Yeast Make Bread? (2023-03-06) — 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
• E41: How Do Microbes Make Decisions? (2023-03-13) — 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 foo
• E42: How Your Blood Keeps You Alive (2023-03-20) — 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 div
• E43: Can Bacteria Eat Plastic? (2023-04-03) — 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. Pla
• E44: Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae (2023-04-10) — 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 y
• E45: The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place (2023-04-17) — 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 t
• E46: These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now (2023-04-24) — You might wonder why we would care if a demodex has a butthole or not. Well, we care because they live on our face.
• E47: The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities (2023-05-01) — 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 org
• E48: The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos (2023-05-08) — 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
• E49: How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey (2023-05-15) — 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
• E50: Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope! (2023-05-22)
• E51: The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra — 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 a
• E52: When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus? — 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 tr
• E53: The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt — 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 ecolo
• E54: Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur — 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
• E55: We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Journey to the Microcosmos have? 7 season(s) with 236 episodes.

Who created Journey to the Microcosmos? Hank Green.

Where can I watch Journey to the Microcosmos? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.