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      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
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      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
      Humanity

      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
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      An 82-Year-Old Woman Was Told Nothing About the Bed Bug Treatment, Then She Died

      Every time you go to sleep, there could be thousands of these thirsty critters sucking your blood, growing and growing. And yes, they will kill you if you let them. So...

      MSN New, Earth

      This 1.5 Meter Fish Lives 2,600 Meters Below the Ocean, and It Looks Like a Ghost

      At first glance, it looks like something straight out of a horror movie. Pale, translucent, and equipped with eerie glowing eyes, the ghost shark is one of the strangest...

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      He Reached for the Elevator Door, but the Falling Cabin Overpowered Him

      Could you survive falling down an elevator shaft? How about being trapped inside an elevator for days? Or being inside a falling elevator? These are just some of the...

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      Humanity Is Only Type 0.7, and We’re Just Getting Started

      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...

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      A Stalker Could Be Watching You Right Now, and You Might Not Know It

      You’re alone at night when you hear a noise in your house. Your heart is racing as you go to check it out. You go to check your room. And there’s someone...

      MSN New, Earth

      The World Goes Dark for One Hour, but the Plan Backfires

      Humanity has spent the last 100 years increasing our dependence on electricity. Look around…. your computer, air conditioner, microwave, fridge, elevator, traffic...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Scientists Want to Replace Rocket Fuel With Solar Wind, and It Could Change Space Travel

      For more than half a century, rockets have been humanity’s ticket to space. They carried astronauts to the Moon, launched probes to the outer planets, and continue...

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      Two Airmen Got Trapped in a Minefield, and Six Explosions Couldn’t Stop Them

      You’ve accidentally stumbled onto an old minefield. Surrounded by land mines buried somewhere in the ground, you don’t know where to step. One wrong move and...

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      He Stepped on a Stonefish, and the Venom Took His Life in Less Than an Hour

      Stonefish are the most, dangerous, venomous fish on Earth. Their 13 dorsal spines are so sharp that they could pierce through a soft-soled shoe. Each spine contains 5 to...

      MSN New, Earth

      They Thought These Ancient Cities Were Myths, Until Archaeologists Found Them

      Across the world, ancient legends often spoke of magnificent cities that vanished without a trace, swallowed by time, war, or nature itself. For centuries, these places...

      MSN New, Cosmos, Earth

      6 Stars That Could Replace Our Sun, and What Would Happen to Earth

      Imagine waking up one morning to find our Sun replaced by a cosmic powerhouse far stranger than anything we have seen. From giants that could swallow planets whole to...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      We Could Build a Human Colony on Titan, but Living There Would Be Nothing Like Earth

      Even if you weren’t 1.5 billion km (900 million mi) away from Earth, starting a community is extremely hard. Luckily for you, we’re here to help you work out the kinks...

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