Here, 2012 director Roland Emmerich and the film's visual-effects supervisors take us behind the scenes of the film to show PM how a team of 100 artists created the ultimate disaster sequence.

Researchers at the Innovation Lab at Disney World’s recently revamped ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex have developed an easy way for ESPN’s on-air basketball analysts to go over plays and interact with virtual versions of NBA players.

Pete Black works for the St. Louis Zoo, where his primary responsibility is to perform routine exams and surgeries and provide preventative care to the zoo's 5000 animals. Black makes house calls to animals' enclosures and works within the confines of the 17,000-square-foot hospital. (Published in the November 2009 issue)

Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening, forcing the bridge's closure: metal fatigue caused by harmonic resonance.

We sat down with the creator of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, and scores of other Nintendo games to play the New Super Mario Bros. Wii game, and to talk about the birth of Mario and the future of video games.