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      What If You Fell Into Lake Nyos?

      April 15, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If You Landed on Kepler 22-B?

      12 months ago
      Body

      What If Your Tongue Were Twice as Long?

      July 12, 2021
      Earth

      What If Algae Took Over the Oceans?

      February 19, 2020
      Body

      What If We No Longer Needed Sleep?

      November 18, 2019
      HTS MSN

      Trapped In An Air Pocket for 60 Hours: The Xisco Gràcia Story

      Deep beneath the surface of Mallorca, Spain, an experienced cave diver found himself facing a nightmare scenario. He was trapped hundreds of meters inside an underwater...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Latin America Became One Country Overnight, and the U.S. Would Face a New Superpower

      Latin America is divided among more than 20 independent countries and territories, each with its own government, economy, culture, and history. Yet for centuries...

      Earth, MSN New

      Imagine If Styxosaurus Was Alive?

      Technically speaking, this marine reptile wasn’t a dinosaur, although it sure swam the Earth alongside many of them. Styxosaurus lived 70 to 85 million years ago, in the...

      MSN New, Earth

      Scientists Reveal the 10 Germiest Public Places You Visit Almost Every Day

      We encounter millions of microbes every day without even realizing it. Most are harmless, but some can spread illness through the surfaces we touch the most. From places...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Triton?

      You might be wondering how I keep ending up in these situations. Well, let me roll it back a bit. Triton, Neptune’s gargantuan moon, is one of the strangest objects in...

      HTS MSN

      30 Minutes to Death, The Bite You Can’t Ignore

      Imagine opening your door and coming face to face with one of the deadliest snakes on Earth. You have only seconds to react. A bite from a highly venomous snake can send...

      Cosmos

      What If a Quasi-Star Entered Our Solar System?

      This rogue star has been traveling the Universe. And now, it’s finally entering our Solar System. But this isn’t just any regular star. It’s known as a...

      Cosmos, Earth, MSN New

      What If Every Nuke Detonated in Space?

      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...

      MSN New

      The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Ever Built Just Revealed the Sun Like Never Before

      At first glance, it looks like a pan full of perfectly popped popcorn. But what you’re actually seeing is something far more extraordinary. These incredible images...

      HTS MSN

      Gyorgy Dozsa Led Thousands Into Battle, and His Captors Prepared a Horrific Execution

      Gyorgy Dozsa was a soldier who became the leader of a massive peasant uprising in Hungary during the early 1500s. He had earned a reputation for bravery during wars...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Latin America Was a Single Country?

      Latin America is spread over both North and South America, with 19 sovereign states and one independent territory. Most of them considered developing nations. Many...

      MSN New, Humanity

      How One Decision in the U.S. Could Change the World Forever

      Unlike the world wars of the twentieth century, the next global conflict might not begin with soldiers crossing borders. It could start inside computer networks. A...

      Science

      What If a Wormhole Formed in Our Solar System?

      What would happen if you flew into a wormhole? Would you ever hear back? Where would you end up? Back in time?Another galaxy? Here’s what would happen if a...

      HTS MSN

      How to Escape the Ocean Hole That Swallows the Sea

      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...

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      The Dutch People Turned Against Their Leader, and the Crowd Tore Him and His Brother Apart

      In the summer of 1672, the Netherlands found itself facing a political and military crisis that would completely change the country’s future. A nation that had...

      MSN New

      Conflicts That Could Set the World on Fire

      Could World War III really happen before 2030? Old rivalries and power moves are pushing nations to the edge. Let’s break down five conflicts that could ignite the next...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Soviet Probe Lasted 2 Hours on Venus in 1981, and That Is Still One of the Records

      In 1981, a Soviet probe called Venera 13 touched down on Venus and kept working for just over two hours before the planet killed it. That performance still ranks among...

      Earth

      What If All Life on Earth Lived in the Oceans?

      Right now, only 15% of life on Earth lives in Oceans. Today, we’re gonna crank that up a notch. You, as well as all life on Earth, are moving underwater. Would we have...

      Cosmos

      Things You Were Lied to About Space

      The Sun is Yellow If you’ve always thought our star was a bright yellow ball of fire, you were wrong. For starters, it’s not yellow. It’s green. Sort...

      MSN New, Earth

      He Survived the Hiroshima Bomb, Then Walked Straight Into the Second One

      e now live in a world where supposed facts either turn out to be fictions or are so outrageous that the increasingly dismayed novelist would struggle to get them passed...

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