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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...


