Some magic tricks make you wonder how they were done. Eden Choi’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent makes you question what you just saw in the first place. With clever visual illusions, precise sleight of…
For thousands of years, the Egyptian pyramids have inspired questions about how they were built and what secrets might still be hidden inside them. This hilarious animated short imagines an answer nobody was expecting. Set…
With an enormous fluffy coat, tiny ears and a permanently unimpressed expression, the Pallas’s cat already looks like one of nature’s funniest felines. But surviving in its freezing home is anything but easy. In this…
A spinning CD looks perfectly solid — right up until rotational forces become too much for it to handle. But when that destruction is filmed at an astonishing 170,000 frames per second, the split-second explosion…
Put one marshmallow in front of a child, tell them they can eat it now — or wait and get another one — and suddenly that tiny piece of candy becomes almost impossible to ignore.…
Building a LEGO Bugatti is impressive enough. Building one at full 1:1 scale is extraordinary. But LEGO went one enormous step further: they created a life-size LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron that can actually drive. This…
Some mountain bike rides are impressive. This one looks almost impossible. Danny MacAskill takes his bike high into the spectacular mountains of Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where narrow ridges, steep drops and rugged terrain create…
A chameleon catching an insect happens so quickly that our eyes barely have time to understand what just happened. Slow the action down, though, and one of nature’s most extraordinary feeding mechanisms suddenly becomes visible.…
Swimming pools are usually filled with water. Mark Rober decided that was far too ordinary and spent months figuring out whether he could fill an entire swimming pool with Jello instead. It sounds like a…
You already know how to ride a bicycle. So if someone simply explained one tiny change to the steering, surely you could adapt almost immediately… right? That’s what engineer Destin Sandlin thought before trying a…
