You would live in giant glass domes, and grow small portions of food inside. And if you happen to go outside, it would be in your big clunky spacesuit, and you...
Polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes. Anything that has multiple faces joined at their edges can be a polyhedron. Picture Earth as a six-sided cube. Or as a...
What advice would you give your younger self if you could travel back in time?
All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our place as the dominant species. But who? Or...
Imagine, it comes out of nowhere. A blinding flash, spanning the entire globe. It lasts only a few seconds, but when it’s over, everyone’s memories have been...
Billions of years ago, another planet smashed into Earth. An event of this epicness could have created our Moon. It also could have brought alien life to our planet...
Overnight, our planet has gone from a pale blue dot to a glistening white snowglobe. Stretches of Earth have become frozen wastelands that are completely inhospitable...
Once that missile launches, you can’t escape what’s coming next. But what are you facing? Four types of energy are about to be unleashed. First, a blast wave...
Food is scarce. Money is worthless. Riots are everywhere. The world is in chaos. This isn’t our past. It’s our future. Humans and bees have a bit of a love...
THE BEGINNING – 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this stage is called the Pre Noachian era. Mars had just formed from dust and gas inside the early solar disk, the...
It’s January 2027. No warning sirens sound across America or Europe. No emergency alert flashes across your phone. By the time the world realizes how serious things have...
Every year, about half a dozen hurricanes reach the United States. With effects ranging from heavy winds and some flooding to the complete decimation of communities...
Welcome to Earth City. Yeah, you heard that right. You’re not going on a globetrotting tour to see all the planet’s major cities. You’re already there. Today, the entire...
Ever feel like the Earth is just too small? Well, let’s make it bigger. Much, much bigger. Welcome to a new Earth that is just as big as Jupiter. In what ways would the...
This is the most powerful object in the Universe. The biggest spinning magnet to ever exist. It’s the cosmic equivalent of a great white shark. But it...
Every human life begins the same way: inside a mother’s womb. Over the course of about 40 weeks, a single fertilized cell develops into a fully formed baby...
Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lives a creature so strange that it looks more like an alien than a fish. With oversized fangs, a massive head, and a body adapted...
Greetings, future moonling. That’s right. You are among the first generation of children born on the Moon. How would your birth compare to every previous human’s...
Imagine if you could take in all of human history in the blink of an eye. Well, from the first steps on the moon to the first steps out of the slime, that’s...
The sky turns orange. A loud noise is coming from the distance and getting closer. You turn and see a wall of sand, rising meters (yards) above the ground, and you’re...
