In 2018, a British woman named Holly spent a day in the sun in Tenerife, Spain. That evening she noticed her face beginning to swell, so she did the most natural thing...
Our Moon quietly shapes life on Earth, from stabilizing our climate to driving ocean tides and lighting the night sky. But what if we swapped it for other moons from...
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars...
Imagine a future where the unthinkable happens. A global catastrophe wipes out nearly everyone on Earth, leaving only two human beings alive. With the survival of the...
Whether it’s Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo, only one tech giant has reigned supreme when it comes to our search engines. Google. It’s so dominant around the...
If you had a device designed to freeze time for everything but you, life wouldn’t be anything like what you’d expect. You wouldn’t catch up on sleep...
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They Dropped Waste Straight Into the Moat, and Cholera Killed Them Within Hours
Picture the castle from the outside. Stone walls, high towers, a moat circling the base. Now picture what is actually in that moat. The upper classes of the Middle Ages...
It’s not every day that a chunk of meat falls from the sky. Astronauts on the International Space Station have precautions in place to keep anything from dropping...
Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered...
About 50 billion rogue planets are roaming the Milky Way with no host star to hold on to, some of them three times bigger than the Earth. They don’t give off any...
At first glance, it looks like something is wrong. A strange, floating slab of flesh rises beside a fishing boat, as if the rest of the animal is missing. But this is...
What if we weren’t the dominant species on this planet? What if we had to compete with every other species on Earth? We are outnumbered. We are surrounded. And our...
Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition breaks down. If Earth were reduced to the size...
Cities would drown, oceans would dry up, and human civilization would be thrown into chaos. This catastrophic change would not just flood our homes but completely...
The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free. And when all of the ice is gone, the world won’t be the same. But what if I told you there was a way to prevent...
Instead of falling apart after a single crash, now we all have cars that are completely indestructible. Would there be fewer fatalities caused by car accidents? What...
Donald Trump called the Pope “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.” The Pope’s response? He has “no fear of the White House...
Imagine waking up to headlines announcing that one of the largest mammals to ever roam the Americas has returned. After disappearing thousands of years ago, the giant...
You are fishing on a calm lake under a bright, sunny sky when something suddenly feels wrong. A strange rotten egg smell fills the air, your boat begins rocking...
12. THE SUN IS A GIANT BALL OF FIRE Did you know that the Sun isn’t really on fire? No. Our Sun isn’t a raging bonfire in the center of the Solar System...
