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 ...
National Geographic photographer David Liittschwager shows us what happened when you let an ecosystem grow inside a 12″ x 12″ x 12″ cube. How much life is on Earth? Scientists still don’t really know, ...
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, ...
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, ...
The exhibition “Life in One Cubic Foot” follows the research of Smithsonian scientists and photographer David Liittschwager as they discover what a cubic foot of land or water—a biocube—reveals about ...
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 ...
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 ...