Online webinar on Foldscope and its applications organized by Dept. of Microbiology, Seth Kesarimal Porwal College, Kamptee, Nagpur in Collaboration with Dept. of Botany Arvindbabu Deshmukh Mahavidyalaya Bharsingi, Narkhed, Nagpur where the expert talk was given by Dr. Parul Gurjar, Former Junior Research Fellow, Indo-US DBT Foldscope.
Category: Environment
Environmental observations (observations in the field, pollution etc).
Foldscope workshop for primary school students in Tanzania.
Foldscope session conducted at St. Joseph primary school , as part of rising stem star session conducted by projekt inspire team . Students were able to explore micro-world , to capture new knowledge related to science of living things and they saw how microworld appeared under 140x magnification using foldscope.
Workshop for School Students at State Children Science Congress
Workshop at State Children Science Congress, a program by National Children Science Congress (NCSC) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India in which students from ALL THE DISTRICTS of Madhya Pradesh participated
How can an insect the size of a grain of rice kill a citrus tree?
“I know what you’re thinking, WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?! The insect is called the Asian Citrus Psyllid, and yes it CAN kill a tree.” photo collage by Valentina, 8th gradequote by Yolada, 7th grade PROJECT STORY MAP: Save Our Citrus https://bit.ly/SaveOurCitrus2021 Culiminating project includes student work & videos. In the summer of 2020, I was…
SAMPLE OF WATER
#WATER
A beating heart, perhaps?
Our pond had been welcoming a lot of frog (or toad) visitors each night since the monsoon started. Recently, I found what I am pretty sure were frog eggs on the edge of the pond: they were jelly-coated, but pretty small, and not spherical – sort of shaped like pomegranate arils. When disturbed with a…
Pollinators’ paradise
Bees are a rare sight in the city. They are seen as a threat, and we humans are driving them to extinction. Yet, without them no life is possible on Earth. A passion fruit vine in my garden sees scores of pollinators every afternoon. What’s admirable is that both species that visit, honeybees and stingless…
#EarthDay Plant Box Treasures
In celebration of #EarthDay, our youngsters headed outside to our plant boxes. We do not have open grounds since we live in the city but this did not stop them from enjoying the little treasures outside. #Kalachuchi #FoldscopePhilippines #foldscope #foldscopePH # #CitSci #CitizenScience #7lakesscience #7lakescistizenscience #7lakescitizenscientists #7lakescitizenscientiststeam
Spores, pollen, wonder and more
This is a documentation of two intended samples and one hitch-hiked sample, all very different from each other yet peacefully inhabiting the same square foot habitat. Plus one bonus sample at the end! When I first learnt about fern spores, I was intrigued by how an entire plant grew out of a microscopic grain, and…
A Camera-shy Tardigrade!
My first tardigrade – and a surprise at that. I looked into my Foldscope, and, without panning or focusing, the first thing that I saw was a slightly blurred, but recognisable little creature! Yesterday I scraped off some lichens from two trees on my street. I think they were the same kind of lichens; they…
Where does dust comes from? Identifying the source of dust using a Foldscope
I have been thinking about the dust in my house for a while, does it come from outside or inside homes or both? How much our bodies contribute to it? What all we can find in house dust. Can this information be used to control dust. I did some online research but found contradictory information…
I. Understanding the earliest farmers: The “crops”
Lockdown and working from home have their own advantages (let us only talk about good things). My favorite new pastime is interacting with an 11-year-old and her everyday school lessons, sometimes even as the class is done. A few days ago, the 11-year-old lectured me on the earliest farmers in the fertile crescent, the Indian…
The structure and veins of a leaf(Crushed).
I saw many veins, and uh.. in the 1st and 3rd picture there is the middle vein of the crushed leaf. Actually, I got this leaf from near my home, where is a ” Milletta Pinnettia ” tree (also called Indian Beech) that is fully grown up. Thankyou!
Diatoms
This is the picture of a bioluminescent microbe while I was examing the microbes in the water sample that was collected from vellayani lake, Thiruvananthapuram, It is the first time spotting a bioluminescent microbe from this lake, It will be showing a fluorescent red color .It is a type of diatom and the luminescence is...
Poinsettia Leaves
The images above are those of the red leaf of the plant Euphorbia pulcherrima, better known as poinsettia. I came across these planted in my neighbour’s window planters and they seemed to stand out. On first glance, the leaves look like flowers and it took a few minutes of staring at them to realise that…
Kalanchoe and Marigolds
In this entry I will be comparing the pictures of two different type of flower petals as seen under a foldscope!
A pool of life!
I noticed a green layer (presumably algae) growing on the terracotta pots on my terrace. All the pots have greenish growth on them, but they all look very different. One pot had a layer which was considerably thicker, and easy to scrape off. I soaked bits of it in regular tap water and let it…
Sedum adolphi ‘Firestorm’
As a succulent enthusiast, the object I have chosen for scientific curiosity is a succulent called Sedum adolphi ‘firestorm,’ which were taken from my personal collection of succulents. I find it exciting to learn about the utilization organisms to produce or carry out functions related to the biomedical field. Examples are Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae,…
Foldscope Figures
Not entirely sure what this is but it has liquid-like features. I was trying to to zoom in on cinnamon sugar when I came across this and decided this looked cooler (the cinnamon sugar clumped up so it did not make for a good sample). I'm thinking it's tape glue. My slides stuck together unevenly...
Life in a leaf
I think there are permecia and some plant cells and some amobea. This is my second post please give me feedback
House fly wing
I ripped the wing off of a fly
Getting nerdy about tea bags!
This post can also be viewed on my website: https://kanika-khanna.com/getting-nerdy-about-tea-bags/ I recently took out my foldscope from its storage bin after almost a year. But as the saying goes, it’s never too late to start exploring. I stepped out of my home into our street here in Palo Alto and took some pretty images of…
Tradescantia spathacea (mose in the cradle) leaf
Tradescantia spathacea leaf
Skunkvine (Stinkvine) leaf
My garden has lots of these vines. Peaderia scandens (Lour.)
Images to feed Foldscope AI
In this post I am sharing a link for my drive where I upload images every time I do experiment. Foldscope Team will be using these footages to train the Foldscope application to recognize the organisms. Maybe you like to check if you have any images unshared, please do share them here and try to…
California, Bay Area Wildfires – Urban Soot Sampling
As of today (12th Sept 2020), wildfires in California and the rest of the west coast of the USA have consumed several million acres of forest cover. The national disaster took a dramatic turn when the skies turned into apocalyptic orange shades right after a heatwave during the labour day weekend. The skies from the…