Located in the United States, one of the world’s largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It’s known as the Yellowstone Volcano, and it’s not just...
You’ve seen it in the movies and read about it in books, but now the idea of creating artificial life in a laboratory is becoming a reality. In 2010, a team of...
We’ve talked about settling on the Moon, Mars and even Venus. But how about somewhere that’s cold, dark and smells like farts? Uranus. What would conditions be like on...
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Evolving 1,000 Years Overnight Would Make You Near-Immortal, but Turn Everyone Into Clones
Skip a thousand years of evolution overnight and you would wake up with a life expectancy of around 150 years. Nanobots monitoring your organs, engineered genes with...
Deep beneath your feet is a subterranean melting pot. A fiery inferno ready to boil over at any moment. Anywhere or anytime. Imagine that today is the day the ground...
The peaceful mountains of Ouray County, Colorado, were home to Donna Munson, a 74 year old widow who had spent years developing an unusual relationship with the local...
Military power can come in many forms, from massive numbers of soldiers and advanced fighter jets to submarines, nuclear weapons, powerful missiles, and enormous defense...
Today, more people are alive on Earth than at any other point in human history. That sounds like an enormous number, but there is one figure that puts it into...
Imagine standing in your kitchen, unable to decide what to eat. Should you pour a cup of coffee or make a sandwich? In everyday life, you eventually choose one option...
The Earth is a dying rock and time is running out. You only have 10 years to plan your escape. How could we evacuate as many people as possible? What resources would we...
Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian...
So, is our world just an illusion? Why do some physicists believe that physical matter isn’t real? What scientific experiments have changed our view of reality...
For hundreds of years, humans searched for proof that unicorns were real. Stories described magical creatures with giant spiral horns, and many believed these mysterious...
Somewhere on Earth, a circle of darkness 267 km across is crawling over the ground. That is roughly the size of West Virginia, moving across the planet, blotting out the...
Industrial robots are intended to make factories work more quickly and efficiently, but they can also become extremely hazardous if anything goes wrong. At present...
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 14 million square kilometers and averages two kilometers thick. Locked inside it is roughly 60 percent of all the freshwater on Earth. If...
Everyone assumes more trees means a cooler planet. Plant enough of them and the temperature comes down. The Sahara might prove that assumption wrong in the most...
Where do they come from? How do we get rid of them? And how much drama is a poltergeist going to cause me? OK, so exactly what is a poltergeist? Well, a poltergeist is a...
The ocean may look peaceful from the shore, but beneath the surface lives an entire world of deadly predators. Some are massive hunters capable of tearing apart large...
You wake up one morning and something feels wrong. The usual sounds of traffic outside your window are gone. There are no voices, no footsteps, and no signs of everyday...
