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.…
This impossible bicycle obstacle course looks difficult enough before anyone even gets on a bike. Narrow platforms, moving obstacles and water waiting underneath turn every section into a serious test of balance, precision and nerve.…
Every bag of Lay’s starts with something incredibly ordinary: a potato. What happens next is a fast, highly automated factory process that turns huge quantities of fresh potatoes into thin, crispy chips ready for seasoning…
Building a suspension bridge is already a massive engineering challenge. Building one high above rugged terrain, with enormous towers, cables and sections of roadway seemingly suspended in midair, takes that challenge to an entirely different…
