The Science Museum of the University of Navarra at partnership with the science popularizer and Full Professor of Microbiology Ignacio López-Goñi(@microbioblog) has launched a new edition of videos entitled #microBIOscope: microbes at the Museum. These are science videos in a fun and understandable tone for any audience that are broadcasted 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 to rigor- some current science and microbiology topic in relation to other living beings and with pieces of 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 knowledge dissemination 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).