Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet. But about 175 million years ago, the Earth...
What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a plan to power the Earth for centuries. Black...
Greetings, future moonling. That’s right. You are among the first generation of children born on the Moon. How would your birth compare to every previous human’s...
Don’t you just love fresh air? And feeling healthy? If only that were possible. That deep, relaxing breath you thought you just took, is full of microscopic...
The mega-earthquake. It’s coming. We don’t know exactly when or how big it’s going to be, but it’s coming. It will be chaotic, and with millions...
What if climate change was taken to the absolute extreme and the entire planet’s ice melted?
Millions of years ago, the megalodon shark was one of the scariest creatures to ever lurk in our seas. And even before that, the mosasaurs reigned supreme, terrorizing...
Scroll down to watch our video. It can instantly cause severe burns on your skin. It can even dissolve things like limestone and concrete. This is battery acid. Now...
In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Your alarm clock rings. Do you jump out of bed? Or hit the snooze button? Do you take cream? Sugar? Or both? We make...
You just fell into a pool with this thing. What is this? How would falling in here affect your health? And could you actually survive this? This is a spent nuclear fuel...
Taller than a six-story building. Longer than three school buses. Ten times as heavy as an elephant. The largest dinosaur ever is coming back from extinction. What would...
The Moon has been Earth’s constant companion for billions of years, shaping tides, lighting the night, and inspiring countless stories. But what if our Moon had a...
Throughout history, humanity has faced existential threats like giant asteroids and invisible viruses. Despite the danger, we always bounce back. But how much longer can...
The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this gas giant wipes us all out. What speeds...
It may sound like science fiction, but imagining a battle between a gas giant and a black hole helps us understand just how fragile our Solar System really is. Such a...
Do you find the time it takes Earth to spin around each day a little slow? Well, how about we speed things up? A lot. What would happen to the length of our day? What...
With so many amazing things happening in the world today, what could possibly go wrong? Well… A giant asteroid is barrelling on a collision course with Earth, and...
There’s something approaching from the distance that you can’t stop. It can completely destroy cities and kill tens of thousands of people. It looks like...
Things are getting hotter and hotter here on Earth, and global warming has everyone panicking. But let us try a wild idea: what if we took every drop of Earth’s water...
