Nothing can travel faster than light. But what if we switched the rules a little? Imagine a world where the speed of light was slower. Way slower. Yep, about the speed...
What if the solution to rising temperatures was not found on Earth, but in the sky above us? As global temperatures continue to increase, scientists are exploring...
Hidden among the millions of rocks orbiting our Sun are resources worth unimaginable amounts of money. Some estimates suggest that the minerals locked inside asteroids...
What if Earth’s orbit ventured as far from the Sun as Pluto, and got as close to it as Venus? Would the Sun burn the planet to a crisp at the closest...
Millions of people packed into Tokyo’s subway system on the morning of March 20, 1995, exactly as they did every weekday. Trains ran on time. Office workers drank...
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...
Humans have explored the Moon, Mars, and of course, Earth. But what do we know about Jupiter? For the most part, this gas giant is a mystery. So what would happen if you...
What does wealth look like to you? Is it a hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? A million dollars? We can always go higher. But how much is too much? In today’s...
About 90 million years ago, Antarctica was not the frozen desert we know today. It was a warm, swampy world filled with dense forests, where ancient plants thrived under...
Imagine stepping out of a time machine one billion years from now. Instead of finding futuristic cities and advanced civilizations, you discover a planet that looks...
At first, it’s very bright. But then, as your eyes adjust to the light, you start to piece together your surroundings. The moving blobs above you, you realize, are...
Picture a food so despised that serving it too often was considered cruel. A food shoveled onto the plates of prisoners and servants because nobody else would touch it...
In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation...
Imagine traveling at the speed of an airplane, but on ground level, and in a giant tube. That’s the idea behind the Hyperloop, a network of incredibly fast moving...
What would happen if the rain simply stopped being reliable? At first, people might treat it as a bad season, but after several years, empty reservoirs, dying crops, and...
Have you ever played your favorite song for your dog or cat and wondered whether they actually enjoy it? Your pet may sit quietly beside you while the music plays, but...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Could Soon Be Gone, and We’re Living at the Right Time to See It
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the most iconic features of our Solar System. And your grandkids will likely never see it. It’s a planet sized storm that has...
Exploding phones might sound like something out of a Mission Impossible movie. But it happens more often than you might think. What could cause your phone to explode...
Martians might really exist… In the future. But instead of the aliens of sci-fi movies, martians would be humans born and raised on Mars. Why would your skin be...
A black hole is often described as a cosmic point of no return, a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that...
