This bug can survive anything, except maybe the bottom of your shoe. But what would happen if we squished every cockroach on Earth? How would this affect the food chain...
Across parts of the United States, deer are being found acting in ways that seem almost impossible to explain. Some stumble through forests, lose their balance, drool...
The most deadly predator of the sea spent its day conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but...
Humans have been evolving for the past six million years. But something’s gone terribly wrong. And now we are evolving backward. Once this process began, how long...
Sand dunes. These breathtaking, gigantic structures formed by tiny grains of sand are beautiful – until you’re being swallowed by one. Deserts are dangerous...
No country owns the Moon. Existing agreements treat outer space as shared ground, meant to be used peacefully by everyone. That sounds settled until you imagine what...
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Humanity Is Building Its Greatest Technologies, but They Could Become Our Biggest Threat
You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be terrifying. Lasers. Artificial intelligence...
Love can make us do some pretty crazy things. When we’re in love, our brains release a cocktail of neurochemicals that not only affect our moods and our well...
Six hundred and thirty five light years from Earth lies a world that continues to capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. It is called Kepler...
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...
Wouldn’t it be great to have a truly jaw-dropping view? Like windows looking directly into space? Well, it’s time to build your very own cosmic skyscraper. What would it...
Thor’s Well, sometimes referred to as the “drainpipe of the Pacific,” is a rocky, circular hole in the Pacific Ocean that was formed after the collapse...
When you ask someone a question, you expect a truthful answer, right? In an ideal world, people would always be honest. But research suggests reality is far messier than...
Black holes are dense and scary. They suck up everything in their way. Their gravity is so strong it bends light and warps time. But what if I told you we might have...
British chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his Sky News team were trying to reach Kyiv when they found themselves driving through an area that seemed strangely quiet...
Imagine if you could take in all of human history in the blink of an eye. Well, from the first steps on the moon to the first steps out of the slime, that’s...
THE BEGINNING – 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this period is known as the Pre-Noachian era. Mars has just formed from dust and gas in the protoplanetary disk...
Earth feels permanent only because human lives are so short. On the scale of the cosmos, however, our planet is passing through a brief moment in an existence that...
Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes loose. Normally, that would be a fatal...
The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them...
