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By Betsey Dexter Dyer, this guide reveals the microbial world that surrounds us “whether you're walking on the beach, visiting a zoo or aquarium, buying groceries, looking for fossils, drinking beer, traipsing through a swamp, or cleaning scum from beneath a dripping outdoor faucet”.
By Ed Yong, this popular science book dives deep into the microscopic world, revealing the close partnerships between animals and microbes. Read more of Ed Yong’s science writing here.
Written by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter, this beautiful book shows diverse microbes in their natural habitats. See more amazing microbial photographs at Scott’s website.
You don’t need a complicated, expensive microscope to come face-to-face with the microbes around you. Foldscopes are cheap, robust, and help people around the world.
Activities, information, and more — including a guide to making your own Winogradsky column to learn about microbial communities at home.
This experiment by Michael Baym and colleagues shows intuitively how quickly bacteria can adapt to new challenges. Read more in this article by Ed Yong.
If you’ve enjoyed our comic and want to read more by the same creators, check out these amazing science comics!
Discover the science behind some of the world’s deadliest parasitic diseases from Malaria to Toxoplasmosis. These comics were made for Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology. Read them here.
We created two comics about stem cell science - Hope Beyond Hype, written by Ken MacLeod and Scottish Stem Cell Stories, written by Barbara Melville.
Edward Ross worked on this comic with the University of Birmingham and the International Ocean Discovery Program to explore how tiny fossils burried at the bottom of the ocean give us clues to the planet’s history. Download here.