Subjects: General

Biologists in California are building some unique structures to provide habitats for the endangered cactus wren.

Physicist John Swain demonstrates how to clean oxidized coins with some common household products.

Engineers used Newfoundland’s Centre for Marine Simulation to better understand the challenges in designing the Chicago Spire to withstand the wind.

Tech giants like Microsoft and HP have teamed up with Disney’s engineers to illustrate how technology may integrate even further into our lives in the future.

Ty Liotta of ThinkGeek Labs demonstrates some new gadgets, including iPod goggles, caffeinated soap, and a binary watch.

How do you get your radio-controlled gilder into the air?

Al Nordin, of Fallbrook Technologies, demonstrates his company’s continuosly variable bicycle transmission.

Laurance Larmour, the curator of the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary, spends much of his time rescuing and caring for abandoned seal pups.

Go behind the scenes at Complexions International where aspiring Hollywood makeup artists learn to build prosthetics and other visual effects makeup tricks.

Researchers are using the latest technology to simulate asteroid impacts to shed new light on what really happened during the Tunguska event of 1908.