You’ve accidentally stumbled onto an old minefield. Surrounded by land mines buried somewhere in the ground, you don’t know where to step. One wrong move and...
Every city, highway, bridge, and skyscraper on Earth tells the same story. Humans have transformed nearly every corner of the planet, shaping landscapes to suit our...
Billions of years in the future, the Sun will begin to die. And this is what our planet would look like. But what if we turn things up a notch or two right now...
In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits a Sun like star and sits in what scientists...
Flooding, devastation, and disease. What could all these awful things have in common? Rain. And lots of it. We’re not talking April showers here. So, imagine a...
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, one question has remained in the minds of people around the world: could Russia actually use nuclear weapons? With one of...
They wallow in filth and are the primary cause of childhood asthma. They aren’t going away anytime soon, they have been pests for about four million years, and...
Black Dolphin is famous for its extreme security, but the prison is only one part of a much larger system. Behind Russia’s prison walls, a long history of harsh...
Volcanic eruptions can be devastating. So what if we took extreme actions to prevent them? How could we drill into a volcano? What would be the benefits of doing this...
See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] The world is heating up! But you’ve known that for a while. How long before it’s too late? Its estimated...
Elon Musk has just claimed Mars as his own personal planet. Building his own human colony on the Red Planet, independent of Earth and with it’s own set of laws...
Frying a turkey in boiling oil may seem like a quick and easy way to cook a festive bird. But it can quickly turn into a disaster. In the United States, each...
Buckle up. We’re going to take the orbit of this rock and kick it into high gear. Behold the Moon breaking its planetary speed limit. How would this event flood...
With Earth’s geopolitical tensions on the rise, the possibility of a global conflict is becoming more than just a distant threat. But in the modern era, a future world...
Nearly 800 million light years away, astronomers detected something that should not fit neatly into the known categories of the universe. The mysterious object had a...
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...
Black holes aren’t exactly a popular vacation destination. They feed on anything and everything that comes into their vicinity. They are dense, and unpredictably...
Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe for artificial radio signals. The idea is...
Imagine stepping aboard a spaceship capable of traveling faster than light. Instead of spending months reaching Mars or thousands of years crossing the stars, distant...
