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The Magical World of Microscopic Food

How a "bio artist" captures extraordinary images of everyday edibles.
Lizzie Philip September 7, 2018
underwater

Eating Lunch 14,000 Feet Below Sea Level

Meals on Alvin are simple, for good reason.
Lizzie Philip September 6, 2018
museums and collections

Unboxing a Prehistoric Fish

Watch how a 400-million-year-old species is preserved.
Lizzie Philip August 8, 2018
Pui Wan's model of an old kopitiam.
miniatures

Making Miniatures to Preserve Local Memories

Painstaking recreations of a rapidly changing city.
Lizzie Philip August 7, 2018
Ellen G.K. Rubin displays one of her pop-up books.
collections

A Visit With the Popuplady

Ellen G.K. Rubin has more than 9,000 pop-up and movable books.
Lizzie Philip July 26, 2018
science

A Gel-Based Material That Can Do the Electric Slide

It's the invention of engineers at Rutgers University.
Eric Grundhauser May 21, 2018
Inside Scarecrow Video.
Seattle, Washington

Scarecrow Video

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.
Alex serenades a Coke can.
sounds

Alex the Honking Bird May Be the First Interspecies YouTube Celebrity

The distinctively voiced cockatiel has earned both human and avian fans.
Cara Giaimo March 2, 2018
Roland Spreer, right, returned William Etherton's lost camera.
video

Found: The Owner of the Camera That Recorded Its Own Disappearance

A reunion after hundreds of miles and months at sea.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 8, 2018
music

Tracing the Frenetic Movements of a London Symphony Conductor

Using 12 cameras and data visualization, this project animated Sir Simon Rattle's baton flicks at 120 frames per second.
Ashawnta Jackson January 2, 2018
paintings

The Artist Who Paints With Fire

Steven Spazuk's flame-powered technique is inspired by 1930s Surrealists.
Ashawnta Jackson December 27, 2017
art

The Seaside-Inspired Artwork of Barbara Hepworth

Watch the influential Modernist sculptor at work in this 1953 documentary.
Ashawnta Jackson December 18, 2017
music

Dig This Look at the History of Jazz Slang

From alligator to zoot suit, jazz musicians speak about the language of the scene.
Ashawnta Jackson December 15, 2017
dinosaurs

The One-Minute Life Stories of Some Fascinating Extinct Species

What looking at animals from the past can tell us about our world now.
Ashawnta Jackson December 8, 2017
art

A 19th-Century Chinese Hat Stand Spent 50 Years in Disguise as a Welsh Lamp

Chinese-porcelain expert Ivy Chan tells the story of a fancy incognito furnishing.
Ashawnta Jackson December 5, 2017
video

This Camera Recorded Its Own Disappearance

Swept 350 miles across the sea, it would like to be reunited with its owner.
Cara Giaimo November 30, 2017
music

The Rhythmic Art of Stick Pounding

Music educator Melanie DeMore is keeping this traditional communication method alive.
Ashawnta Jackson November 27, 2017
This perfect flower was injected right into the jelly.
food

The Beautiful Cakes Injected Full of Flowers

Watch as jelly masters create 3-D designs with needles and syringes.
Anne Ewbank November 17, 2017