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…
A leopard vs porcupine encounter might sound like an easy victory for one of Africa’s most capable predators. But this determined porcupine has a defensive advantage that makes getting anywhere near it a painful proposition.…
A red-hot metal ball experiment becomes strangely irresistible when the glowing sphere meets objects that were never designed to handle extreme heat. Coconut, rubber bands, matchsticks and other everyday materials are all put to the…
The McLaren Speedtail vs F-35 Fighter Jet showdown sounds like something invented for a video game: one of McLaren’s fastest road cars going head-to-head with a cutting-edge fighter aircraft. Top Gear actually made it happen.…
