Wild honey hunting already sounds demanding, but harvesting a giant beehive deep inside the jungle takes the idea to another level. High above the forest floor, experienced honey hunters work around an enormous natural hive…
Shin Lim’s impossible card magic doesn’t feel like a collection of ordinary tricks. Cards vanish, reappear and transform seemingly inches from the audience, all performed with such smooth precision that figuring out where the deception…
The world’s largest elephant toothpaste experiment takes a classic science demonstration and scales it up to an absolutely ridiculous level. Instead of a little foam spilling from a bottle, Mark Rober and Science Bob set…
A giant 6-foot water balloon is already ridiculous enough. Fill it until two grown men can barely control it, then film the moment it finally bursts at thousands of frames per second, and you get…
This domino and marble run chain reaction starts with a simple idea and quickly turns into something far more elaborate. Marbles race through tracks, trigger moving parts and connect with carefully arranged dominoes in one…
These ibex climb an almost vertical dam with such confidence that the footage barely looks real. Far above the ground, the animals carefully make their way across a surface that appears to offer almost nowhere…
The fastest man-made objects operate on such wildly different scales that numbers alone struggle to make their speeds feel real. Put them together in one 3D comparison, however, and even seriously fast cars suddenly begin…
Inside a tomato ketchup factory, the journey starts long before anything reaches a bottle. Huge quantities of ripe tomatoes first have to be harvested, transported, sorted and processed before they can become the thick red…
This wingsuit flight puts you frighteningly close to the mountainside as the pilot dives into a steep natural gully and races along a line that seems impossibly narrow from the air. There’s no elaborate setup…
Jyoti Supernaturel’s impossible balance act is the kind of performance that makes you stare at the screen trying to work out exactly what you’re seeing. His Bulgaria’s Got Talent audition combines extraordinary balance, illusion and…
