What if the Moon was more than just a lifeless rock? Under that bright light, it could be hiding an alien civilization. When did this alien life begin on the Moon? What...
Ever wonder what it would feel like to step into an oven? Welcome to Death Valley, California. It’s so hot you can barely breathe. This national park that stretches...
This former intelligence officer-turned-president took Russia from a defeated Cold War relic to the most feared superpower in Eurasia. Now Vladimir Putin, who many have...
You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it’s possible...
When you think of dinosaurs, images of giant, scaly reptiles like the Tyrannosaurus Rex probably come to mind. Movies, textbooks, and popular culture have shaped our...
Once a revolutionary invention, it's now filling up our oceans and killing thousands of whales, birds, turtles... Just how much plastic do we have around us?
Proxima b is very promising. It orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri in a system with three stars in it. Proxima Centauri is small. It only has between 7.5%...
First of all, look at the map. Iran isn’t a country, it’s a fortress. Three times the landmass of Iraq. Four times the population. And mountains that...
Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single cosmic trap hiding behind the biggest...
Get ready for some serious burns and the instantaneous death of organisms. Let’s turn up the heat and bring the entire planet to a boil for five whole seconds. How would...
What if Jupiter’s 79 moons weren’t gravitationally bound to Jupiter? What if they became rogue objects orbiting on their own paths around the Sun? Would they still be...
Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature in the Universe. Nothing gets colder than that. So if the entire Earth suddenly cooled down to the most frigid...
It’s the middle of the night, and you hear a squeaking sound coming from your attic. You get up to investigate, and as soon as you pull the attic ladder down, a...
Tentacles meters long that can tangle around you and stingers ready to inject deadly venom. They can be almost entirely seethrough, making them the perfect killer in...
A sudden reduction in size, shrinking by one centimeter per second, would expose a human to progressively smaller scales of the natural world, from ordinary objects to...
Avatar’s Pandora is the wildest, most beautiful and most deadly place in the galaxy. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live here? But how could the air kill you...
The last time the world witnessed a total solar eclipse was in 2017, and its presence delighted enthusiastic sky watchers. But what if, instead of a rare phenomena, a...
Look out. A burning hot space rock just fell straight into your living room, destroying all the things you care about most. Goodbye, sweet television. How did this...
You’re in the Ghostbusters universe. With a quick stomp, demons are as good as gone. So how would life change if you could bust ghosts in real life? Would you need...
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