Episode 1
Meet the Microcosmos
Episode 2
How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch
Episode 3
Stentors: Single-Celled Giants
Episode 4
How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?
Episode 5
Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
Episode 6
Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal
Episode 7
How Do Protozoa Get Around?
Episode 8
Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
Episode 9
Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures
Episode 10
How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?
Episode 11
Death in the Microcosmos
Episode 12
Euglenoids: Single-Celled Shapeshifters
Episode 13
Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
Episode 14
Relax and Enjoy the View
Episode 15
Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted
Episode 16
Rotifers: Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored
Episode 17
The Microscopic Circle of Life
Episode 18
Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters
Episode 19
The Colors of the Microcosmos
Episode 20
Eating, Hatching, and Crashing into the Moon: More About Tardigrades
Episode 21
Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?
Episode 22
Paramecium: The White Rat of Ciliates
Episode 23
Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink
Episode 24
What Microscope Do We Use? (And Other Frequently Asked Questions)
Episode 25
What Humans and Stentors Have in Common
Episode 26
Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers
Episode 27
We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?
Episode 28
What If All the Microbes Disappeared?
Episode 29
Desmids: The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals
Episode 30
Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
We Filmed Tardigrade Sex!
The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy
Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro
How to Identify Microbes
How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World
Bacillaria: Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies
The Microcosmos of the 1800s - The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
How We Find Our Microbes
The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium
Synura: Smelly, Flowery Confetti
How to Survive the Microcosmos
What Is the Point of Sex?
What Are These Vorticella up To?
Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder
Making Decisions Without a Brain
Peritrich Ciliates: Masters of Long-Range Snacking
The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
Testate Amoebas: Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers
Colorless Euglenoids: Structure and Function (and Food)
The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis
The Microbe You Eat All The Time
How to Name a Microbe
Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides
Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World
We Upgraded Our Microscope!
How Do Microorganisms Poop?
Flatworms: Simple Wiggly Tubes
Our Paramecia Are Infected
Lacrymaria: Vicious Long-Necked Predators
The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes
Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate
Can Microbes See Without Eyes?
Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?
Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller
Didinium: The Paramecium Hunter
Some Water Bears Live on Land
The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
This Ciliate Is About to Die
Strange Stentor Stories
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
How Did Multicellularity Evolve?
Actinobolina: A Tiny Predatory Porcupine
Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?
Dinoflagellates: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut
Moss & Lichen: Which One Is Actually a Plant?
Suctorians: The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates
Pelomyxa: The Microbe That's Big Enough to Pet
Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?
How Do Microorganisms Pee?
Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation
Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors
Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
Heliozoa: Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes
How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells
Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos
The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates
We Found a Super Rare Microbe!
Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums
The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos
Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers
Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos
Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies
We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!
Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos
The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra
We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail
The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos
These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out
Where Is This Anemone Really From?
The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite
The Dark History of Sea Monkeys
What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen
Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight
Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer
The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice
Tumbling Down Invisible Highways
The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze
Dileptus: The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite
Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
Microbes in Slow Motion
The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis
Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish
Creepy Crawly Close-Ups
Adventures in Being Eaten
The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos
The Double Life of a Fake Jellyfish
The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms
Microbe Hunting in Antarctica
Nematodes: The Worm That Sculpted The World
Aeolosoma: Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms
What Even Is A Species?
The Spatula-Shaped Ciliate Family
Giant Microscopic Cannibals
How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
Putting Coral Under the Microscope
How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
We Accidentally Grew Crystals
Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
Sand Is Full of Life and Death
The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
Episode 31
A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
Episode 32
The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
Episode 33
The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
Episode 34
The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
Episode 35
How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
Episode 36
The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
Episode 37
Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
Episode 38
Microscopic Space Travelers
Episode 39
These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
Episode 40
How Does Yeast Make Bread?
Episode 41
How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
Episode 42
How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
Episode 43
Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
Episode 44
Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
Episode 45
The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
Episode 46
These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
Episode 47
The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
Episode 48
The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
Episode 49
How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
Episode 50
Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
Episode 51
The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
Episode 52
When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
Episode 53
The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
Episode 54
Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
Episode 55
We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
Falling In Love With Microscopy
The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
Why Are Some Birds Blue?
The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
Floating Cities of Scum
Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
The History of Red Algae
These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
What Makes A Microbe Rare?
These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
This special diatom is having a very bad day
We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
How Do We Find Cancer?
Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
We Found Something Strange in Portugal
We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
A Collection of Tiny Universes
Some Microbes Also Take Naps
We Answer Your Questions!
We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)
