# Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water

"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen — without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engineer Simone Bianco hook up a 3D microscope to a drop of water and take you scuba diving with plankton. Learn more about these mesmerizing creatures and get inspired to protect them against ongoing threats from climate change.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Nature
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TomZimmermanandSimoneBianco_2017S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TomZimmermanandSimoneBianco_2017S?play=1)