Congratulations, you’ve taken the seven-month-long journey and have landed on Mars. And it turns out, you’re the first person. Better start getting the human...
The Permian Period, which lasted from about 299 to 252 million years ago, was one of the most fascinating and dangerous times in Earth’s history. It ended with the...
In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation...
Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and frightening tools ever created by humanity. With over twelve thousand warheads spread across the globe, these devices hold...
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, the world has been afraid of one thing. Russia’s nukes. But what exactly would happen if Russian president Vladimir Putin...
What are the ingredients for an industrial revolution? It’s simple! Take some new energy sources, add a dash of cutting-edge communications technology, and...
What would it actually be like if every particle in your body converted into a dark matter particle? And how long could you last in that state? Everything that we can...
In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be drastically altered by a gravitational...
Serving and protecting the United States is a big responsibility. But its seven services have things covered, even outer space. Tonight it’s sea versus sky as we...
With all the work to do, people to see, traffic jams to get stuck in, we all sometimes wish we could be in two places at once. We’ve already cloned sheep, cows...
We can build really big things in space. Okay, not that big – yet. But we’ve packed the Earth’s lower orbit with about 5,000 satellites – some...
How would the world change if, all of a sudden, every biological man disappeared? Would the world become more peaceful? Why would you have to ration food? And why...
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...
Life on Mars might be like this. You’d live in giant glass domes, and grow small portions of food inside. And if you happen to go outside, it would be in your big...
Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what would it actually be like to live on one of...
What if, someday, we decided that the usefulness of our planet had run its course, and humans needed to scour space to find somewhere new to live? But instead of finding...
A Sherpa was missing for six days in Mount Everest’s death zone. He survived on discarded food left behind by previous climbers as he slowly crawled his way back to base...
Eye Makeup The people of Ancient Egypt were already using eye makeup as early as 4000 B.C., making them one of the first civilizations to develop cosmetics. Both men and...
The Paleozoic era began 530 million years ago when the Earth woke up from an ice age. This era lasted for 289 million years, but you might not even last five minutes in...
Forget everything you know about the United States of America. It is not united anymore, but divided into several independent nations. No, this isn’t the result of...
