Since 2007, David Liittschwager–a photographer who worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon and now photographs for Smithsonian and National Geographic–has traveled the world with a bright green, ...

A biocube placed on the Tamae Reef off the Pacific island of Mo’orea (© David Liittschwager, all images courtesy Smithsonian Institution unless otherwise noted) A biocube in place at the Hallett ...

A new exhibit shows the massive amount of wildlife that lives in just one cubic foot of space. “Life in One Cubic Foot,” which opens Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...

To document the vast diversity of life on the planet, photographer David Liittschwager narrowed his focus. He created a series of images of the creatures and plants that grow, slither, flit or fly ...

Photographer David Liittschwager used a green cage measuring 1 cubic foot to introduce random sampling into his documentation of six fragile ecosystems See more in our gallery: “Portraits of ...

Your Pizza Rolls deserve a good microwave. This countertop wonder, whose origins date back to the 1940s, is probably one of the most frequently used appliances in your kitchen thanks to its ability to ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

What can we discover in just a cubic foot of Earth? As it turns out, a whole lot! Biocubes—the life in a cubic foot of soil or water over one day—capture enough variation to explore the complexity of ...