For decades, the animators behind “Chicken Run” and “Wallace & Gromit” have used a very specific type of clay. It’s pliable enough to reshape for months, but firm enough not to melt or crack under studio lights. Then one day, Aardman Animations got word that its clay manufacturers were retiring. News that the studio's clay supply was in jeopardy spread quickly from newspapers to Reddit fan forums. The Journal’s video goes inside the legendary film studio to show how it raced to save its beloved clay. Chapte ...

WSJ technology columnist Christopher Mims explains the highs and lows of EV ownership. #EV #Autos #WSJ ...

The first passenger train service between Beijing and Pyongyang since the pandemic hints at a slight thaw in ties between China and North Korea, reports WSJ’s Tim Martin. ...

This is the main desk area that I have. This is upstage left. Um, I have shelving and I have all the items that we need during the show, whether to fix them or to hand them out for the show.There's pencils, there's cameras, there's newspapers. That's the machine gun for kitties scene. This is very tight.Uh, in the theater, it's not much room. Uh, in fact, I'm literally sitting below the drummer on under the stage. He actually climbs up this ladder and sits over my head, which makes it for a very interesting ...

This chart shows that the share of home buyers turning to adjustable rate mortgages has doubled from about a year and a half ago. These loans start with a fixed rate for a set period, usually 5, 7, or 10 years, before adjusting to a new market rate and resetting once every 6 months or a year. The initial fixed rate is typically lower than the 30-year fixed mortgage.Their rising popularity comes down to short-term cash flow. With fixed rates around 6%, an ARM clocks in at about 5.5% initially. While rates ha ...

Who's the world's greatest investor. I gave our readers five legendary options to choose from. Here's who came out on top.Peter Lynch was our third most popular pick with 12% of the vote. Lynch took over Fidelity's small Mellan fund when it had just $18 million in assets. By the time he retired, it had $14 billion.During a stretch that included two recessions and the worst ever day for US stocks, his compound return was 29.2%. Jim Simons came in second and was selected by 18% of our readers. Simons put toge ...

As Russia’s war with Ukraine threatens to spill over into Europe, nations around the world are rapidly restoring and expanding their network of shelters to keep people safe in the event of a chemical, biological or even nuclear attack. Shelter construction companies have been heading to Finland and Switzerland to see what it takes to build a bunker that can withstand modern day threats. WSJ traveled to Finland to check out one of the country’s largest modern nuclear shelters that can keep 7,000 residents in ...

- [Narrator] In the two months since the US military captured President Nicolas Maduro, there's been a shift unfolding in Venezuela. Under pressure from the Trump administration, the interim government has started to free some of its prisoners, prompting many families who were once fearful of retaliation to speak out. - [Narrator] This fragile political opening has sent families scrambling to free their loved ones from the country's prison system, notorious for allegations of torture and arbitrary detention ...

I visited a tiny island in Scotland to check out one of the country's few working distilleries that you can stay at overnight. It is beautiful. The island is called Rzzi.It's a sliver of land about the size of Manhattan with a population of fewer than 200 people. And it was my second stop on a 500-m tour of Scotland's evolving whiskey landscape. In 2022, Scotch distilleries and visitor centers were the most popular attraction in the country, according to the Scotch Whiskey Association.But I wanted to skip t ...

We are straight to the airport. >> Oh my god. >> The targeting of airports by Iranian forces across the entire Gulf.The adog disruption to civilian flights. Missiles and drone strikes could launch at any time. All of this is is something that airlines aren't used to navigating um and especially not at this scale.Iranian drones and missiles have damaged airport passenger terminals and at the same time countries across the Gulf have had to intercept incoming strikes. There were attempts to target Hammed Inter ...