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      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Humanity

      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      Body

      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      8 Moments in Earth’s Past, and You Would Not Survive a Single One of Them

      Time travel sounds like a gift until you look at the destinations. Earth has spent 4.5 billion years cycling through conditions that would kill a modern human within...

      MSN New, Earth

      Millions of Maya May Have Lived Here, and the Forest Kept It Secret for Centuries

      For centuries, it looked like nothing but jungle. Dense Guatemalan rainforest stretching in every direction, hiding what turned out to be one of the largest ancient...

      MSN New, Earth

      Kessler Syndrome Starts, and Humanity Is Trapped on This Planet for Generations

      Every rocket we launch brings us one step closer to being locked on this planet permanently. That sounds backwards. Sending things into space should open it up, not...

      MSN New, Earth

      Its Skin Swallows 99.5 Percent of All Light, Which Is Why Nothing Ever Sees It Coming

      Point a light at it and the light does not come back. Almost none of it, anyway. The skin of this fish absorbs up to 99.5 percent of everything that touches it, which...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      It Rains Molten Iron, It Rains Rubies, It Rains Solid Rock, These 12 Worlds Are Real

      On Earth, rain is water. That is the only version any of us has ever known. Somewhere out there, rain is liquid iron falling through a 2,200 degree sky. Somewhere else...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      You Land Under a Red Dwarf Sun, and Every Single Step Feels Heavier

      The hatch opens and the first thing that hits you is the light. Not the bright white glare you have known your entire life. Everything here glows deep orange, a...

      HTS MSN

      He Paid to Pet a Leopard. Seconds Later, the Scalp Was Off

      Dwight Turner thought he was paying for an unforgettable animal experience. Instead, he nearly lost his life. In August 2020, Turner paid for what was advertised as a...

      MSN New, Science

      The Secret Is a Jelly Inside Its Body, and Humans Barely Produce Any of It

      There is a thick, jelly like substance packed throughout the body of one particular animal, and it may be the closest thing science has found to a fountain of youth...

      HTS MSN

      4 Meter Crocodile, Seconds Later He Drags Her Underwater

      For Cindy Waldron and her longtime friend Leeann Mitchell, a peaceful night in the Australian rainforest suddenly became a fight for survival. The two women had known...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      They Dropped Waste Straight Into the Moat, and Cholera Killed Them Within Hours

      Picture the castle from the outside. Stone walls, high towers, a moat circling the base. Now picture what is actually in that moat. The upper classes of the Middle Ages...

      MSN New, Earth

      Its Eyes Glow in the Dark 2,600 Meters Down, and It Is Not Even a Real Shark

      Two thousand six hundred meters below the surface, where sunlight has not reached for millions of years, something is looking back at you. Pale. Translucent. Drifting...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      By 2126 You Could Upgrade Your Own Organs, by 3026 You Might Not Be Human at All

      Your grandchildren might replace their own hearts the way you replace a phone battery. That is not the strange part. The strange part is what comes after, because if you...

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