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      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
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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
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      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      MSN New, Cosmos

      Dumping Every Drop of Earth’s Water on the Sun Would Only Make It Burn Hotter

      The planet is heating up and everyone is looking for a solution, so here is one that sounds almost reasonable at first. Take every drop of water on Earth and dump it on...

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      Scientists Say a Carrington Event Could Send the World Into Darkness, and This Is How You Survive the First 72 Hours

      It is 2 A.M. when your pregnant wife Chanelle suddenly shakes you awake. Her contractions are only eight minutes apart, but before you can even get out of bed, you...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Black Hole Is Heading Straight for Earth at Unimaginable Speed, and Nothing Can Stop It

      Something is coming toward Earth, and every weapon humanity possesses would make it stronger. That is not an exaggeration or a figure of speech. It is the literal...

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      One Tiny Crack in a Wheel Sent This 200 km/h Train Into a Bridge, Killing 101

      The crack was inside a single wheel, invisible from the outside, and inspectors kept missing it. It had been growing quietly for a long time before anyone paid a price...

      MSN New, Earth

      5 Monsters Ruled Prehistoric Australia, and Humans Had No Right to Survive Them

      Take a modern human and drop them into Australia around 100,000 years ago. No claws, no armor, no venom, no speed worth mentioning. Just soft skin and a decent brain...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Moon Is Shrinking Earth to a Quarter of Its Gravity, and Our Air Is Slipping Away

      Our atmosphere stays where it is for one simple reason. Earth is heavy enough to hold it down. Take that mass away and the air begins drifting off into space, quietly...

      HTS MSN

      He Preached With Venomous Snakes in His Hands, Then a Rattlesnake Took His Life

      Growing up around venomous snakes, Jamie Coots knew exactly how dangerous they could be. Yet he believed his faith would protect him, convinced that either God would...

      MSN New, Earth

      8 Asian Insects Are Hunting You, and Some Strike While You Sleep

      Hornets large enough to decapitate honeybees with their jaws. Centipedes that climb walls and ceilings before dropping into your living space. Bugs that wait until you...

      MSN New, Earth

      Antarctica’s Ice Is Holding Back a 70-Meter Wall of Water, and It’s Starting to Melt

      The Antarctic ice sheet covers 14 million square kilometers and averages two kilometers thick. Locked inside it is roughly 60 percent of all the freshwater on Earth. If...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Jupiter Could Swallow 1,321 Earths, and the Sun Could Hold Over a Million

      Take Earth, the entire planet with every ocean, mountain, and city on it, and treat it as a unit of measurement. Jupiter could hold 1,321 of them. Then take Jupiter, the...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Falling Into Jupiter Would Destroy You Long Before You Ever Reached the Core

      The core of Jupiter sits roughly 70,000 kilometers below the cloud tops, and nobody is ever getting there. Not a person. Not a spacecraft. Not anything humans have ever...

      MSN New, Earth

      Turning the Sahara Green Could Backfire and Make the Planet Even Hotter

      Everyone assumes more trees means a cooler planet. Plant enough of them and the temperature comes down. The Sahara might prove that assumption wrong in the most...

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