Wonder at the science of planet Earth— its beauty, its history, and the quite literally world-shattering processes that act upon it. Excavate a treasure trove of crystalline wonders and explore the fascinating commonalities shared by the most diverse ecosystems.
Inside a precious opal, shafts of refracted pastel light and pinfire illuminate miniature caverns. Play of Color is a term mineralogists use to refer to the unique way lightwaves get refracted inside an opal, generating fluctuating colors. The screen shows a 3-millimeter wide area of the gem. Thi...
Pollen grains and flower petals take on new dimensions as the surface details of various flowers are magnified over 5000x larger than actual size inside a scanning electron microscope. SEM video courtesy of David Scharf, scharfphoto.com. Original score by KRON.
Glide through the unique ecosystem of the Everglades National Park in Florida, USA. Luxuriate in the languid stillness of untamed nature.
One of nature's wonders, a snowflake's hexagonal symmetry begins on the molecular level. Trillions of identical water molecules collect together in a cloud to form a single snowflake. Each molecule is comprised of just three atoms -- two Hydrogen and one Oxygen atom, H2O. Self-organization enable...
Float through the center of hundreds of real snowflakes, each one a unique wonder. The hexagonal shape of a snowflake reflects the arrangement of its atoms, ten million times smaller on the molecular level. Oxygen atoms are heavier than Hydrogen atoms, making the molecules join together the exact...
Suspended inside a Rainbow Lattice Sunstone, straight-line geometries shine in metallic pastels. In a one of a kind microscopic vision, gaze inside this and other precious stones. This program was made in collaboration with mineralogist and photomicrographer, Danny Sanchez. Music by KRON.
