Neuralink is an American company started by ohhhhh, let’s just say “well-known public figure” Elon Musk. Launched back in 2017, its mission was to...
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...
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...
If a family member calls you from jail panicking and says they need you to wire them some money for legal fees, would you second guess them and potentially make the...
What do saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and the dodo all have in common? They’re all extinct, and some theorize humans played a large part in this. What if...
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...
Together, the U.S., Russia, and China control nearly half of the world’s military power, dominate the global economy, and influence the most powerful international...
It is easy to dismiss mosquitoes as nothing more than annoying insects, but their impact on life on Earth is far more serious than most people realize. These tiny...
Tired of living on an overpopulated Earth? Why not move to the O’Neill Cylinder? An artificial state-of-the-art space habitat where we can control everything...
With the vastness of the Universe, everything in it seems so spread out. But some objects are closer than you might realize. Every now and then, a random interstellar...
Millions of years ago, this giant sea scorpion terrorized the ocean. It was the apex predator of its time. So what if we brought it into the modern-day and had it fight...
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They Fought Hand to Hand Because Guns Were Banned, and People Still Died on That Border
On that border, soldiers patrol without guns. Both sides agreed to it, a rule meant to stop a disagreement from becoming a shooting war. And in 2020, along the disputed...
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars...
Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a...
Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just want to take the entire planet on a joy ride...
“Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth” That’s right. It’s...
The planet is heating up and everyone is looking for a solution, so here is one that sounds almost reasonable at first. Take every drop of water on Earth and dump it on...
410 kilometers (254 miles) above the Earth. That’s where the International Space Station floats. What if you happened to be all the way up here but suddenly fell...
The Paleozoic Era represents one of the most transformative periods in Earth’s history, spanning approximately 289 million years from 541 to 252 million years ago...
The Earth is a dying rock and time is running out. You only have 10 years to plan your escape. How could we evacuate as many people as possible? What resources would we...
