In the middle of London a man steps off a plinth into thin air, his own flag wrapped over his face. In an Austrian village, two people make watches without raising their voices.
The river on the screen is not flowing; thousands of still frames are passing in turn. The universe works the same way, and this watch was built to make that jump audible on the wrist.
A bacterium rebuilds a genome broken into hundreds of pieces, in the right order, within hours. A watch changes its …
In the deep, light is made by cooling rather than by burning. The dial of this diver carries the same …
At the bottom of the Amazon a fish beats mains voltage without a gram of metal. In Geneva, a movement …
A jellyfish in the Bay of Naples grows younger as it ages. A garden in Geneva rebuilds itself on the …
Monasteries burned and heads struck off for the sake of a male heir, and a woman who walked from a …
A walking tree, macaws that eat clay, and a leaf that defends itself with the molecule we swallow for a …
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