You found all the best sales and now you are ready to head home. Everything feels normal as you step onto the escalator. Then something changes. A loud mechanical snap...
What causes moonquakes? What would happen if half of our Moon drifted away? Has the Moon already split in half? As friendly neighbors in the sky, the Moon and Earth have...
Do you find the dark unsettling? Have you ever watched the big game on your refrigerator? With all the conveniences of modern living available in your pocket, or at the...
You pop out of the ocean and hear the faint yells of the lifeguard. The whole beach panics. Your turn around. Something lurks in the water. Before you can say...
The next time you see that adorable hummingbird at your feeder, remember one thing. It might take your life. Because in this world, every bird works for the government...
You just fell into a pool with this thing. What is this? How would falling in here affect your health? And could you actually survive this? This is a spent nuclear fuel...
Wait a minute, Neanderthals are extinct? Before you laugh, check yourself. Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be...
Deep in the western Pacific Ocean lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth. The Mariana Trench is not a place designed for human exploration in any comfortable...
Deep beneath Greenland’s frozen surface lies the remains of a secret military base that was once part of one of the most ambitious Cold War projects ever attempted...
Scroll to the bottom to watch our video. The Earth has been hurtling towards Jupiter for the past 242 days, and now it’s about to make impact. Now we’re so...
Hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones. They’re all one in the same. Storms. Now, the mother of all of them is about to hit New York and you’re caught right in the middle of it...
What if the Universe is an illusion? What if your reality is not what it seems to be? What if you are you’re just a 2D projection stretched on the surface of a...
Ants are among the most familiar creatures on Earth, yet scientists continue to uncover abilities that seem almost unbelievable. One recent observation left researchers...
Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than Earth’s. Planet Nine, also known by its...
Few animals can perform feats that seem to defy gravity quite like the alpine ibex. Watching one calmly walk across a nearly vertical cliff face is enough to make even...
The Kardashev Scale, first introduced by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, is a way of measuring how advanced a civilization is based on how much energy it can...
Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just want to take the entire planet on a joy ride...
Communication is something humans often think we have mastered. We use languages, gestures, facial expressions, and technology to share information with each other. But...
In 1044, the Chinese invented gunpowder. And we’ve been getting into trouble ever since. Fireworks are cool, nuclear warfare is not. And nuking the moon...
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...
