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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Racquel Stephen covers “One Cubic Foot,” a Smithsonian project exploring life in the Genesee River. Host Racquel Stephen discusses “One Cubic Foot.” Photographer David Littschwager and a team from the ...

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 ...