The dead are rising. The infection is spreading faster than anyone can contain it, and defenses are already failing. A study by the University of Leicester theorized...
Solitary confinement in Gitarama prison means a room measuring one square meter. No ceiling. No bed. Just walls and however long they decide to leave you there. The...
Imagine that you could shed your skin like a snake. How long would it take? What would happen to scars and acne? And why would some people shed more often than others...
A snake bite can turn into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Every year millions of people worldwide are bitten by venomous snakes, and some cases end in...
He was eleven years old, standing in a public square with other children from his neighborhood. In front of them, a man was tied to a post while a firing squad raised...
Saturn does not enter this fight alone. Hidden within its rings sit at least 150 moons and moonlets, an entire arsenal of ice and rock orbiting alongside it. None of...
MSN New, Body
Spending 24 Hours in a Hot Spring Would Cook Your Organs, but the Real Killer Is Invisible
A few minutes in this hot spring would leave you feeling refreshed. But what would happen if you camped out in this foul-smelling pool for 24 hours? How could this water...
Scientists have a threshold for planetary destruction. An object roughly 96 kilometers wide, striking Earth, would wipe out every living thing on the surface. Jupiter...
In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the planets and our Sun don’t make noise. What would...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a massive gas giant so enormous that its gravitational influence reaches far beyond its distant orbit. Although it...
The most dangerous groups in history did not open with violence. They opened with an offer. Belonging. Answers to the questions nobody else could resolve. A community...
MSN New, Cosmos
If Earth Were the Center of the Solar System, the Sun Would Die and We’d Freeze Solid
Put Earth at the center of the Solar System and something has to give. Gravity does not negotiate, so if everything is going to orbit us, the masses have to be...
