tardigrades Behold: the first recorded image of a tardigrade Popkin

Science Magnified Sand reveals the hidden beauty of individual grains Popkin

travel Lake Clifton in Western Australia is home to living fossils called thrombolites Popkin

Funny The bizarre 1903 film that turned cheese mites into movie stars Popkin

Science Thousands of tiny worms form eerie tentacle-like structure to find food Popkin

Technology Scientists are close to simulating a worm brain Ellsworth Toohey

Science The clouds above us teem with strange creatures Allan Rose Hill

books Agnes Catlow's Drops of Water is an 1851 book filled with beautiful illustrations of the author's interpretations of microscopic organisms Popkin

Alan Turing Interactive web toy transforms Turing's morphogenesis theory into digital art Mark Frauenfelder

Science Algae nanorobots might soon deliver drugs inside our bodies Elías Villoro

early life The earth's oldest existing lifeforms Miss Cellania

Boing Boing Gadgets This dino-shaped aquarium is filled with thousands of bioluminescent new friends! Boing Boing's Shop

Boing Boing Gadgets Remember Sea Monkeys? Then you'll love Dinoflagellates. Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants Google's aborted Ara phone was supposed to launch with an aquarium module full of wriggling tardigrades Cory Doctorow

video These vibrant arrangements of diatoms revive a lost Victorian art Andrea James

History Meet Saccorhytus, bloblike human ancestor that shat through its mouth Rob Beschizza

biology Tiny Pac-Man game uses real single cell organisms Mark Frauenfelder

mushrooms How I learned to think like a mushroom Tradd Cotter