With a mix of focus and a casual style, Yohei Kisanuki, also known as LimbaTrip, draws frame after frame of a phénakistiscope—a zoetrope-like spinning paper disc. Using...
Mollies (Poeciliidae) are common tropical fish found from the southern United States down to South America, and in fish store aquariums. In the wild, mollies are often...
Stinging nettle has a long history of human use, dating back thousands of years. It has been valued for its medicinal properties, as well as for its...
Families often struggle to balance work commitments with spending quality time together. This award-winning 2D and stop-motion animated short, created with detailed physical sets, focuses on that...
As its name suggests, the crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) is a large raptor with a preference for a small but specific prey: bee and wasp larvae,...
Deep inside Sicily’s Mount Etna, gas bubbles at the magma’s surface burst, propelling them up at high speed through the stratovolcano‘s cylindrical vent. This shapes the water...
At this candle factory in South Korea, paraffin wax is melted into a liquid, mixed with powders for color and hardness, and pumped into molds with wicks....
Boston Dynamics robots were first developed at Carnegie Mellon (1980-1986) and MIT (1987-1995), where founder Marc Raibert was a professor. These “Leg Laboratory” inventions were one-legged, two-legged,...
The Grand Prismatic Spring, a marvel of Yellowstone National Park, is not only the largest hot spring in the United States but also the third-largest in the...
After the success of building a small wildlife pond in his yard for bird photography, nature photographer Stefano Ianiro decided to construct a larger, more sheltered pond...