The Science Museum of the University of Navarra in collaboration with the science popularizer and professor of Microbiology Ignacio López-Goñi(@microbioblog) has launched a new edition of videos entitled #microBIOscope: microbes in the Museum. These are science videos in a fun and understandable tone for any audience that are broadcast live through the social network Periscope and then published on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs. 

With a monthly frequency, the videos explain in an entertaining, agile and fun way -but without renouncing rigor- some current topic of science and microbiology in relation to other living beings and with pieces from the Science Museum of the academic center, which houses more than 25 million specimens of 10,000 different species. 

With this activity the Science Museum of the University of Navarra wants to demonstrate that, in the popularization of science, fun is not the opposite of serious, but boring.

The videos will answer curious questions such as how many different bacteria there are on Earth, what is the largest bacterium in existence, what is the relationship between rodents and viruses, what is a biosafety laboratory like, why does the flu virus change so frequently, or what were the bacteria that coexisted with the Neanderthals, among many other topics. 

This activity is supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) through the call for grants for the promotion of scientific, technological and innovation culture 2017 (ref.: FCT-17-11818).