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      Cosmos

      What If a Quasar Entered Our Solar System?

      January 9, 2020
      Science

      What If a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?

      January 25, 2019
      Humanity

      What If Humans Evolved Backward?

      March 3, 2023
      Body

      What If You Only Ate Red Meat?

      February 11, 2021
      Body

      What If You Fell out of an Airplane at 30,000 Feet?

      August 5, 2019
      MSN New

      Scientists Discovered a Disturbing Secret About Your Cat

      Cats are known for being independent, mysterious, and sometimes a little strange. They can ignore their owners for hours, knock objects off tables for no reason, and act...

      HTS MSN

      Thousands Risk Their Lives at Japan’s Most Dangerous Festival

      Every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region of Japan to watch men ride enormous logs down a mountainside. Not metaphorically. They climb on top of...

      MSN New, Earth

      You Became Lost in the Andes, and Every Hour Would Make Survival Harder

      Few things beat standing among the mountains, breathing in air that feels crisp and clean, surrounded by scenery that looks pulled straight out of a fantasy film. It is...

      Cosmos, Earth, Humanity

      48 Hours After Alien Contact

      It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      An Astronaut Spent 5 Seconds on Io, Jupiter’s Deadliest Moon

      Imagine stepping onto a moon where almost every direction hides a deadly hazard. That is Io, the fiery satellite orbiting Jupiter. It looks like a glowing world forged...

      Cosmos

      What If the Sun Exploded Tomorrow?

      That star at the center of our Solar System, that superhot ball of plasma that gives us heat and energy, and amazing complexions… well, it’s a ticking time...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Hidden Planet 17 Times Bigger Than Earth May Be Lurking Beyond Neptune

      Over the past century, astronomers have speculated about the existence of a mysterious 9th planet lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system. Although we’ve...

      MSN New

      How Long Could Life Survive If the Oceans Froze?

      I hope you’ve packed some ice skates for your next trip out to sea because the oceans have completely frozen over. What conditions could cause this massive oceanic...

      MSN New, Earth

      How 134 Men Vanished While Searching for the Northwest Passage

      In May 1845, Sir John Franklin and 134 men left England on one of the most ambitious Arctic expeditions of the 19th century. Their goal was to navigate the Northwest...

      Cosmos, MSN, MSN New

      7 Mysterious Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Stars

      TOI 849b is one of the largest rocky planets ever discovered. It’s a massive, desolate world with zero atmosphere, orbiting incredibly close to its star. Temperatures...

      HTS MSN

      He Spent Most of His 1,100 Days in Solitary Confinement, He Was Only 16

      In 2010, a 16 year old boy named Kalief Browder was arrested in New York City after being accused of stealing a backpack. What followed would become a devastating story...

      HTS MSN

      Murder Hornets Are Here. This Is How You Survive Them

      You hear a strange buzzing sound coming from somewhere nearby. At first, it seems distant and harmless. But then the noise grows louder. Much louder. You look around...

      HTS MSN

      The World’s Deadliest Spider and How to Survive It

      It happens in an instant. A sharp pain shoots through your foot. You look down, expecting a small insect or a thorn, but instead you catch a glimpse of something dark...

      HTS MSN

      Black Widows Are Nesting in Your House. Here’s the Plan

      You put on your shoe and feel a burning pain in your foot right away. Your whole leg starts feeling stiff. The room spins as your vision blurs, and your stomach clenches...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Great Attractor Is Pulling 100,000 Galaxies Toward It, and We Can’t Escape

      These balls represent one of the strangest phenomena currently taking place in our Universe. Each ball symbolizes one of 100,000 galaxies , including our own that are...

      Humanity

      What If Elon Musk Became President?

      What if, instead of Trump or Biden becoming the next U.S. President, there was a third-party candidate? And that candidate was Elon Musk? What if Elon Musk became the...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If Our Mountains Collapsed?

      Mountains. They’re born, they grow, they age and erode. And after a very, very long life, they turn to dust. What if all mountains collapsed at once? What are the...

      MSN New, Earth

      What Earth Would Actually Look Like With Two Suns in the Sky

      There are sunsets on other planets even more spectacular than the ones on Earth. What if we could see not just one, but two suns falling below the Earth’s horizon...

      HTS MSN

      Inside Thailand’s Infamous Bang Kwang Prison, Where Prisoners Were Treated Like Animals

      Bang Kwang Prison was no ordinary prison within Thailand’s system of prisons; for many years it gained a bad reputation due to conditions which drove the prisoners...

      Humanity

      What If There Were No More Cats?

      Scroll down to watch our video. Where would I be without you, Mr. Mittens? It’s not a meme; it’s a fact: We can’t live without cats. Do you know why...

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