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      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Body

      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
      MSN New, Earth

      The Most Powerful Sea Creatures Compared

      The ocean is home to some of the most extraordinary creatures on the planet. From tiny deep sea hunters to massive gentle giants, its waters hide animals that are both...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      James Webb Can See 13 Billion Years Into the Past, and We Are Only Getting Started

      Humanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what is hiding out there. Entire galaxies, black holes, strange planets, and maybe even alien civilizations...

      MSN New, Earth

      Temperatures Dropped to −71.2°C, Freezing Exposed Skin in Moments

      Deep in the frozen wilderness of eastern Siberia lies a village unlike anywhere else on Earth. Snow blankets the landscape for most of the year, the ground remains...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Physicists Explain What Happens When a Black Hole Comes Too Close to Earth

      Imagine looking up at the night sky and learning that a black hole is racing toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. Not a giant one that swallows galaxies, but a...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      If We Put the Planets in Order by Size, Earth Would Be Doomed

      Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic equilibrium developed over billions of years...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      You Just Landed on Kepler 186 f, and the Red Sky Is Only the Beginning

      Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The sky glows dim red instead of blue. Strange plants sway in the cold wind...

      HTS MSN

      The Captain Was Sucked Out of the Plane at 17,000 Feet, but Somehow Survived

      It’s June 10, 1990, and after an hour delay, British Airways Flight 5390 is finally about to take off. Captain Timothy Lancaster, co pilot Alastair Aitchison, four...

      HTS MSN

      A Sinkhole Suddenly Opens Beneath a House, and You Only Have Seconds

      What’s that sound? The pipes in your basement creak and groan. The floor starts to tremble and shake. Cracks start to form and crawl up the walls. Is an earthquake...

      HTS MSN

      Port au Prince Has More Than 100 Gangs, but That’s Not the Scariest Part

      Danger does not always announce itself. In many parts of the world, an ordinary trip through a city can become dangerous simply because someone happens to be in the...

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      Reactor Four Is 40,000 Times More Radioactive, and Five Minutes Is All You Get

      Bleak landscapes, soldiers in gas masks and mutant creatures running through the Red Forest. Basically, a perfect place for you to spend a month. Welcome to Chernobyl...

      MSN New, Humanity

      World War III Could Begin With Nearly 14,000 Nuclear Warheads Waiting in the Background

      Human history has been full of battles and wars, some big and some small. But if World War 3 were to happen, it might be humanity’s biggest battle yet. Advanced...

      MSN New, Humanity

      AI Is Learning Your Weaknesses, Your Fears, and Your Desires, Then Comes the Real Problem

      Artificial intelligence is getting better at understanding people every year. It recommends the movies we watch, the products we buy, and even the music we listen to...

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