SLOW-MOTION

Do praying mantises fly? Sometimes—and watching them take off nearly 200 times slower than normal is undeniably cool.

Thanks to The Slow Mo Guys, we now know what wine glasses look like when they shatter at 187,500 frames per second.

The colored smoke of daytime fireworks creates what The Slow Mo Guys describe as a “rainbow volcano.”

Things get a lot more exciting in slow motion.

The Slow Mo Guys demonstrate the science of thermal shock by—how else?—destroying measuring cups.

Oh, the humanity!

The magical composite material is also lighter and stronger than current armor plating.