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      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
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      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
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      Something Weird Is Happening in Antarctica

      Something is happening beneath Antarctica that most people never think about. Under a sheet of ice larger than Europe sits a hidden landscape of mountains, valleys, and...

      MSN New, Body

      What Happens If You Step on a Rusty Nail?

      Yikes. You just stepped on a nail. Worse yet. A really rusty nail. What would all that rust do to your body? How long would you have before an infection kicked in? And...

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      Inside Scientology: The Dark Secrets That Former Members Say the Church Tried to Hide

      For decades, Danny Masterson was known around the world for his role as Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show. But in 2020, the actor was charged with sexually assaulting...

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      A Cougar Clamped Onto Her Face for 15 Minutes, Then Her Four Friends Refused to Let It Win

      On February 17, 2024, 60 year old Keri Bergere was enjoying a cycling trip through the Tokul Creek trail in Washington State with four friends. The group had already...

      MSN New, Humanity

      35 Percent of Your Day Would Go to Growing Food, and Starvation Would Still Be Close

      What if we took everything that sustains life on this planet, and shrunk it down to one small bubble? Earth’s biosphere stretches about 20 km (12 mi). From the...

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      He Built a Clever Alarm So He’d Never Oversleep, Then One Christmas It Killed Him

      In the mid 1880s, a hardworking lamplighter in New York came up with an unusual solution to a problem that could have cost him his livelihood: oversleeping. Sam...

      MSN New, Body

      You Just Fell Into a Pool of Blood-Sucking Lampreys, and Here’s What They Do to You

      Before you cannonball into that refreshing pool, look before you leap. It could just be filled to the brim with blood-sucking lampreys. And they’re hungry. How would...

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      One Brother Tripped on a Stick, and That Was All the Mountain Lion Needed

      On March 23, 2024, brothers Taylen and Wyatt Brooks headed into the woods near Georgetown, California, to search for deer antlers. Both were experienced hunters and...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Jupiter and Mars Just Swapped Orbits, and Here’s Why Earth Wouldn’t Survive It

      The delicate balance of the entire Solar System exists in a gravitational dance between planets. Swap the orbits of two of them and you could end up wreaking all kinds...

      MSN New, Earth

      Earth Just Gained 79 Moons Overnight, and Here’s How Fast It Turns to Chaos

      Look up tonight and you would see 79 moons instead of one. Most would look like unusually bright stars, but four of them would hang there as full glowing disks. It would...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Hole in Earth’s Magnetic Shield Is Drifting and Splitting in Two, and Satellites Are at Risk

      There is a weak spot in the magnetic shield protecting our planet, and it is not staying still. It drifts slowly westward, and measurements suggest it may be splitting...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      On Mars the Sunset Is Blue, and It Only Gets Stranger From There

      Everyone knows what a sunset looks like. Reds and oranges bleeding across the horizon, the day fading out the way it always has. Then you visit Mars, where the exact...

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