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The World Under a Microscope – with Marty Jopson

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The Royal Institution

Marty Jopson makes an entire world invisible to the naked eye visible in this demo and image filled talk.
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Take a journey from everyday life, down into the realm of microscopical wonders with Marty Jopson, the BBC One Show’s resident scientist. The adventure begins with things you can almost see but soon you will find yourself in a world totally invisible to the unaided eye. Marty will take you from the very beginnings of microscopy, through hugely magnified insects, bacteria and plants to the most up to date fluorescent techniques demonstrated live on the stage.

This show is supported by Zeiss, global leaders in the manufacture of microscopes.

Marty Jopson is a science TV presenter, live show performer, writer and strange prop builder. He has been making science television for over twenty years and has worked behind the camera as a researcher, prop builder, director, producer, executive and company manager. His career as a presenter spans over ten years as the science reporter on the BBC1 flagship programme, The One Show. He’s also appeared on regional, national and international series like Invention Nation (BBC1), The House the 50s Built (C4), Food Factory (BBC1) and Brainiac (Sky1).

When not on television, he spends much of his time on stage performing hair-raising and flammable science at science festivals around the country. He has also published two books with Michael O’Mara Publishing, The Science of Everyday Life and The Science of Food.

This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 13 October 2018.

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42 thoughts on “The World Under a Microscope – with Marty Jopson”

  1. Wanted to let you know there's an ad for one of those snake oil herbal remedies for the common cold on this video. It doesn't exactly seem like the sort of product that the RI should be endorsing or even affiliated with. I think the product was called coldrops.

  8. Wonderful tour of microscopic creatures,cells and activities! I so loved working with microscopes in my career – miraculous stuff going on in those dimensions!! Thanks for really engaging,fascinating presentation.

  12. The thing that always amazes me about watching stuff on RI is knowing that Micheal Faraday lectured at that very same desk. Very cool

  14. I bought a pocket microscope, it does like 60-120x and it is amazing – the amount of detail you get to see just by something that fits in my palm, now every bug I find dead I spend an hour or two observing every detail and one time I was looking over an autumn fly and I noticed 2 rows of dented domed shaped circles along its back and with a little bit of research I found out they are Ocelli which are simple eyes – a fly can see from its back (just light and dark, but it has that knowledge), I would never have looked into this or found it out if I haven't just dived in and looked myself.
    I might now have formed a slightly unhealthy obsession with invertebrates, but I'm not alone luckily.

    I'm not trying to advertise it but I love it and may as well show people it exists £15 on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LAX52IQ/ (this is a newer version of the one the Natural History Museum used to sell)

  16. I wonder, in that last part where you see the cell in the middle of division, whether you can actually see the division happening in real time? Or is it too slow to notice?

  30. I wish there was a regular micro-safari show. An episode released every week or something.There are plenty of science TV programs that have shown microscopic creatures but they are heavily produced and focus only on a few things they consider interesting. I'd rather have an informal show where you aren't really sure what you'll find.
    It's kind of like nature shows that focus on elephants, tigers, and pandas. Yes, they are cool and sometimes cute but they have been done to death. Show us new things. The world is filled with amazing creatures that are very important and yet most people are only aware of a extremely small number of them.

  34. Very cool video!
    Would have been better to put the samples on x-y-z manual translation stages for better control of the image, that way you can "fly" slowly above the microscopic safari.

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