Japan’s 400 km tsunami seawall is a coastal engineering project on a scale that’s difficult to comprehend. Stretching along hundreds of kilometers of Japan’s northeastern coastline, this enormous network of defenses emerged from the rebuilding…
Venetian glass art transforms blazing-hot molten material into something remarkably delicate and beautiful. In the hands of an experienced glass artisan, a glowing mass is gradually stretched, shaped and refined until an intricate work of…
These animal behaviours caught on camera aren’t simply spectacular wildlife moments — each one represents something filmed for the first time. BBC Earth brings together 10 extraordinary sequences captured during the making of Planet Earth.…
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…
