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What happens when your eyes and brain don't agree?
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Graduate student Jason Ahrns and colleagues hunt the skies for sprites—fleeting streaks and bursts of color that can appear above thunderstorms
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Some of the best books to put on your reading list
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Some architects played with Legos as a child. And some never stopped playing with them
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Sake has been brewed for thousands of years in Japan. Now, American brewers are starting to make sake—but is it any good?
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The cardboard sleeve became the ubiquitous finger-saver for coffee fanatics everywhere
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The childhood toy becomes an architect's dream come true
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Sergio Albiac generates images of people by collecting their head shots and replacing pixels with snippets from pictures of stars and galaxies
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How a ruse to keep German pilots confused gave the Vitamin-A-rich vegetable too much credit
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For years, inventors have tried to create a wetsuit capable of withstanding a shark's deadly bite
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There is a liberal bias in America’s political comedy scene, says Alison Dagnes. What gives?
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It was actually first developed during World War II in an effort to help save the lives of seamen and pilots who had to await rescue in open water
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Photographer Pierre Carreau captures waves mid-break, showing the surf's delicate balance of power and fragility
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The American History Museum celebrates our country's lush food history—and explores its food future—with the Food in the Garden series
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Intrigued by the powerful hunters, artists have made tiger sharks, great whites and hammerheads the subjects of sculpture
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Traveling the West Coast? Like beer? Then consider pulling over at these highway locations from Alaska to California and finding the bottles of beer
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A new exhibition presents 1970s photography that challenged the traditional American landscape
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Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob uses bacteria as an art medium, shaping colonies in petri dishes into bold patterns
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With a little ingenuity, a 1930s cartographer left his mark on the society
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The new issue covers peace songs and spoken word from around the world
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