Discovery

A precarious glacier in the crater of Mount St. Helens grows at an unprecedented rate, posing potential danger to the valley below. A group of adventurous researchers visits the crater to investigate and gets a rare up-close look at the odd co-existence o...

You can pick up a synthetic sponge for just a few dollars. But a natural sea sponge, hand-harvested from the Mediterranean seafloor, could set you back $30. Harvesting these sponges is dangerous, and the risks don’t guarantee big rewards.

Michael Laiskonis, Creative Director of New York City's Institute of Culinary Education, demonstrates the equipment, ingredients, and artistry essential to making 5 different bonbons, perfect for collecting in a stylish gift box of chocolates. Take an up-...

3D Comparison of the world's tallest statues sized to scale.

3D Comparison of actual Universe objects sized to scale.

3D Comparison of actual animal size to scale.

Find out what the Great Sphinx would have looked like when it was first built, and why the Pharaoh Khafre had the great monument built with his face on it.

Today we look at the story of the first female created in Greek mythology, Pandora. We examine why she was created and how she doomed and saved humanity with her box.

From mole ground with a traditional tool in Mexico, to metal art forged with ancient wax-casting techniques in India, and shea butter made by women artisans in Ghana, we got an inside look at businesses around the globe to see how their centuries-old trad...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more...

India is one of the world's top salt producers. Most of the country's salt comes from the desert of the Little Rann of Kutch.

Balinese palung salt is made by harvesting seawater from Bali's beaches and evaporating the water using coconut tree trunks. We visited Kusamba village in Bali to see how a community of coastal farmers are preserving their ancient salt-making methods.

Vanilla is one of the world's most expensive spices because it's so labor-intensive to grow.

Frankincense and myrrh are perhaps best known for their biblical connotations. But this tree sap has been prized across the world for over 6,000 years.

Tropical rock lobsters, or pearl lobsters, as they're better known, are one of the rarest and most expensive lobster varieties. The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have been international smuggling attempts of its larvae.

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably handsome boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted to rape and prayed to be united with forever.