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COVID-19 Sparks Community Action

This video shows how a group of students, scientists, and volunteers came together to make hand sanitizer and masks for their community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Microbiology
Science Practices
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Biology of SARS-CoV-2

This four-part animation series explores the biology of the virus SARS-CoV-2, which has caused a global pandemic of the disease COVID-19.

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Microbiology
Click & Learn
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Solving Crimes with the Necrobiome

This short video explores the stages of decomposition of animal bodies and shows how microorganisms found during the decomposition process can provide useful information for criminal investigators.

Microbiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

A World without Microbes

This short video explores a thought experiment of what the world would be like without any microbes.

Microbiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Nature’s Cutest Symbiosis: The Bobtail Squid

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and light-producing bacteria.

Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Termites Digest Wood Thanks to Microbes

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.

Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

How Giant Tube Worms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between giant tube worms and species of chemosynthetic bacteria.

Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Animated Shorts
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Think Like a Scientist: Natural Selection in an Outbreak

This video focuses on the front lines of the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and explains how scientists monitored the evolution of the virus by analyzing its genome.

Genetics
Microbiology
Evolution
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Virus Hunter: Monitoring Nipah Virus in Bat Populations

This video follows scientists working in Bangladesh as they test fruit bat populations to determine whether they are infected with Nipah virus, a potentially deadly human pathogen.

Microbiology
Science Practices
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

The Origin of Flight: What Use Is Half a Wing?

In this video, biologist Ken Dial demonstrates that birds use their wings for more than just flying, which may help us understand how dinosaurs used their small wing-like limbs before the evolution of flight.

Anatomy & Physiology
Evolution
Science Practices
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

How We Get Our Skin Color

This animation describes how skin color is generated by skin cells as protection against ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Cell Biology
Anatomy & Physiology
Animations
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Your Inner Fish

This film explores how the genetic and anatomical legacy of a fish can be seen today in the human body.

Anatomy & Physiology
Evolution
Science Practices
Feature Films
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College