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      Earth

      What If America Were Split Apart?

      April 12, 2021
      Body

      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If the Sun Swallowed Earth?

      December 16, 2020
      Humanity

      What If Lightsabers Were Real?

      March 8, 2021
      Body

      What If You Never Coughed?

      April 7, 2020
      HTS MSN

      This Beach Danger Kills More People Than Sharks

      When most people think about deadly dangers at the beach, sharks are usually the first thing that comes to mind. But the real threat hiding beneath the waves is far less...

      MSN New

      They Found the Strangest and Rarest Crocodile in the World

      Deep in the winding rivers of northern India and Nepal, researchers searching for one of the world’s most elusive reptiles made an incredible discovery. Gliding...

      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      A gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet. This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made...

      HTS MSN

      The Most Dangerous Cities You’d Never Want to Get Lost In

      Danger can be found almost anywhere in the world. Sometimes, being in the wrong place at the wrong time is all it takes to become caught in a dangerous situation. But...

      HTS MSN

      The Andes Flight Tragedy Nobody is Talking About

      On a dark December night in 1995, a routine commercial flight turned into one of the most devastating aviation disasters in modern history. What began as a standard...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Humans Just Lost the Ability to Sleep. Here’s What Follows

      Our world is sleep-deprived. In the last century, people slept an average of nine hours per night. Today, more than half the world’s population gets by on less...

      DailyMoment, Earth, MSN, MSN New

      Earth Day: What If We Set Aside Half the Planet for Wildlife?

      About 65 million years ago, a mass extinction event occurred, wiping out more than 75% of all species on Earth. There have only been 5 mass extinctions in our...

      Science

      What If the Universe Ended Tomorrow?

        What if all the stars disappeared tomorrow, together with all the planets, solar systems and galaxies? What would be left of the Universe if it suddenly collapsed...

      MSN New

      Slide Through 4.5 Billion Years of Human Evolution

      Life on Earth began in one of the most mysterious processes in science, occurring roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the planet was still forming and extremely hostile...

      Science

      What If Our Sun Became a Neutron Star?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Stars with a much larger mass than our Sun burn out after just a few million years; in a gigantic explosion known as...

      Earth

      What if Earth Dropped to Absolute Zero for 5 Seconds?

      Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature in the Universe. Nothing gets colder than that. So if the entire Earth suddenly cooled down to the most frigid...

      Cosmos

      What If We Turned the Moon Into a Giant Farm?

      As Earth’s population multiplies each year, we’re quickly running out of resources to feed the planet. Before long, we’re going to need more space to...

      Earth, MSN, MSN New

      What If All the Satellites Orbiting Earth Suddenly Fell?

      Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discover how losing thousands of satellites could instantly shut down GPS, internet, banking systems, and...

      Humanity, MSN New

      6 Worst Ship Disasters of All Time

      Would you dare to hit the open seas and experience some of the worst ship disasters of all time? From explosions to icebergs and massive storms to the infamous...

      MSN New

      What If You Could See the 4th Dimension?

      Imagine waking up one morning with an extraordinary new ability: the power to see the fourth dimension. At first, it might sound like something straight out of science...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If We Nuked the Mariana Trench?

      Today we’re dropping a big bomb into the deepest part of the ocean. So grab a surfboard and get ready to hang ten on the waves of a massive nuclear tsunami. How would...

      MSN New

      What If You Spent 5 Seconds in the Mariana Trench?

      The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the world’s oceans, located in the western Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands. At its lowest point, the Challenger...

      Cosmos

      What If You Fell Into a Black Neutron Star?

      A dark, mysterious object has appeared at the outer edges of our Solar System. It looks like the remnants of a dying star. But it behaves like a black hole. Your mission...

      MSN New

      When 50 Million Crabs Invade an Island: The Christmas Island Phenomenon

      Every year on Christmas Island, something almost unbelievable happens as millions of tiny red crabs begin to move across the landscape in one massive, coordinated wave...

      Science

      What If You Were the First Person on Mars?

      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...

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