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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
      Humanity

      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      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
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      A 2.5 Meter Bull Shark Attacked a Teenager, His Brother Jumped In After Him

      A family vacation in Florida was supposed to be a relaxing escape filled with sunshine, fishing and swimming. Instead, one afternoon turned into a terrifying fight for...

      HTS MSN

      Their Boat Sank Near Snake Island, Two Men Chose to Die Rather Than Swim Ashore

      Late February, 2019. A small fishing boat carrying six men is caught in a storm off the coast of Brazil and starts going down. Land is visible. Close enough to swim to...

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      He Walked Through the Airport Smiling – 20 Minutes Later He Was Dying

      He knew they were coming for him. For years he slept in different cities, traveled under a false name, and never stayed anywhere long enough to become predictable. The...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      NASA’s Moon City Isn’t Science Fiction Anymore. Here’s What Living There Would Cost You

      Everything you take for granted has a price on the Moon. Air is manufactured. Water is mined and recycled endlessly. Warmth is engineered. Even a walk outside requires...

      MSN New, Humanity

      They Went Extinct for a Reason – Now We’re Bringing Them Back Anyway

      Nature already made its decision. The woolly mammoth, the saber toothed tiger, the dodo bird, all of them were judged by climate, by predators, by shifting ecosystems...

      MSN New, Humanity

      We Haven’t Even Reached Type I. Here’s How Far Behind Humanity Really Is

      On a cosmic report card, humanity does not even earn a passing grade. There is a scale scientists use to measure how advanced a civilization truly is, and it has nothing...

      MSN New, Humanity

      No Edison, No Modern World? What Vanishes the Moment He’s Gone

      Imagine waking up tomorrow in a timeline where Thomas Edison was never born. No Wizard of Menlo Park. No mountain of patents. No famous inventor dominating the headlines...

      MSN New, Earth

      3I ATLAS Is Older Than Our Sun. Here Is What Happens If It Strikes Earth

      Before our Sun ignited, before Earth was even a cloud of dust, this thing was already out there, drifting between the stars. Its name is 3I Atlas, and right now it is...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Coldest Death in the Solar System. What 5 Seconds on Triton Does to You

      There is a place in our Solar System where stepping outside without a suit kills you twice in the same instant. Your blood starts boiling while your skin starts freezing...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Real Reason Pluto Lost Everything, and It Is Not What You Learned in School

      Ask almost anyone why Pluto stopped being a planet and you will hear the same confident answer: it was too small. That answer is wrong. Size was never the crime. Pluto...

      MSN New, Earth

      Earth Against a Black Hole. Scientists Ran the Numbers and They Are Terrifying

      Physicists love asking questions that should never have answers. Questions like this one: what exactly happens to Earth if a black hole comes our way? They ran the...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Machines Have Spoken. This Is When the First Human Steps on Mars

      Ask a human when we will walk on Mars and you get a dream. Ask the data and you get a date. Feed everything we know into the analysis, current space agency roadmaps...

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