Five Great Dyings
Travel back to five moments before the age of dinosaurs when most life on Earth disappeared: the Ordovician, Devonian, Guadalupian, Permian and Triassic extinctions, each on a globe of the continents as they were.
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Ghost Particles
What neutrinos are, how physicists imagined and caught them, and how a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice became the IceCube telescope behind the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Interactive 3D film6 min1930 to 2026
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The Bretton Woods Twins
How the IMF and the World Bank were born at Bretton Woods in 1944, how the dollar–gold system worked and broke in 1971, what the two institutions do today, and why they are debated, from Thailand's 1997 crisis to the 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok.
Interactive 3D film7 min1929 to 2026
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The Equations of Flow
What the Navier–Stokes equations say, how Euler, Navier, Stokes, Reynolds and Kolmogorov built our picture of flow and turbulence, and the million-dollar question about blow-up behind an unverified 2026 AI claim. With a live fluid simulation you can stir.
Interactive 3D film6 min1757 to 2026
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When the Ground Moves
How earthquakes and tsunamis happen, told through the plates beneath Central America and Panama: elastic rebound, seismic waves, magnitude, how a tsunami is born and crosses an ocean, warning systems and how to stay safe.
Interactive 3D film7 min1880 to 2026
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Why Life Is Left-Handed
Why molecules come in mirror-image forms, why life uses only one hand, and how chemists found reactions that amplify a tiny imbalance: the story behind the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Interactive 3D film6 min1848 to 2026