For Cindy Waldron and her longtime friend Leeann Mitchell, a peaceful night in the Australian rainforest suddenly became a fight for survival. The two women had known...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
They Dropped Waste Straight Into the Moat, and Cholera Killed Them Within Hours
Picture the castle from the outside. Stone walls, high towers, a moat circling the base. Now picture what is actually in that moat. The upper classes of the Middle Ages...
Two thousand six hundred meters below the surface, where sunlight has not reached for millions of years, something is looking back at you. Pale. Translucent. Drifting...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
By 2126 You Could Upgrade Your Own Organs, by 3026 You Might Not Be Human at All
Your grandchildren might replace their own hearts the way you replace a phone battery. That is not the strange part. The strange part is what comes after, because if you...
Jeremy Sutcliffe thought the most dangerous part of his encounter with a rattlesnake was already over. In 2018, Jeremy was working in his backyard when he suddenly heard...
It is dusk, and you are walking through the African bush searching for firewood. You reach toward what looks like an ordinary branch lying on the ground. Then it moves...
Somewhere under the street you live on, there is a pipe. And in this scenario, it is about to burst. The plan is simple and completely insane. Everyone on Earth flushes...
Somewhere on Earth, a circle of darkness 267 km across is crawling over the ground. That is roughly the size of West Virginia, moving across the planet, blotting out the...
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sailing through the Pacific Ocean when disaster struck. Japanese torpedoes slammed into the American heavy cruiser, causing...
MSN New, Earth
Divers Found Perfect Circles on the Seafloor in 1995, It Took 18 Years to Catch the Artist
Somewhere off the coast of Japan in 1995, divers found something on the seafloor that should not have been there. A perfect circle, roughly two meters across, carved...
Ninety light years away, something transmitted. Astronomers picked up unusual radio signals coming from that direction, and the scientific community split almost...
Picture lying down to sleep on Pandora. There is no darkness. There never is. Alpha Centauri B hangs in the sky even at night, and some estimates suggest it could shine...
