Pollen is vital for both plant reproduction and food for animals, including humans. When a pollen grain lands on a plant’s stigma, it germinates, and a pollen...
What would it look like to plunge into a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? Goddard scientists visualized this hypothetical journey in...
Imagine spending three weeks high up in a tree. For dedicated cameraman Josh Aitchison, this wasn’t just a feat of endurance, but also an incredible opportunity to...
Written by Cynthia Erivo, Remember to dream, Ebere celebrates big dreams and big imaginations, and the families who help foster them. The Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award...
How did Wild West safe crackers break into the bank safe mechanical combination locks? And what goes into the engineering inside the everyday combination locks like the...
Horsetails, also known as Equisetum, are an ancient fern ally with some fascinating features. When it’s time for them to reproduce, tiny spherical spores with four bendy...
Spend 3.5 minutes with a bright yellow male Baya Weaver, a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. These skilled builders are known for their...
George Zaidan set out to capture the intricate process of water freezing into crystal clear ice. Instead, his experiment in slowly freezing a drop of water reveals...
What are tapirs? How does protecting tapirs help their rainforests thrive? And how does captive breeding in zoos help these endangered animals in the wild? In this...
Zoom, zoom, zoom into “the sharpest infrared images to date” of the iconic Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula located approximately 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion....
Linocut artist Elina Adrshina crafted this Sunflowers print with nine colors carefully layered one on top of the other. In the video above, Adrshina showcases the technique...
In the cold forest canopy, small mammals with large dark eyes glide effortlessly from tree to tree. These are Siberian flying squirrels, fantastic creatures with furry membranes...
Filmmaker Andrew Lavers uses his passion for editing in digital and analog ways, including creating YouTube films, mixing tactile activities into his digital work, and turning articles...