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...
Deep under the Earth’s surface, there’s a scorching hot ball of metal. Scientists just discovered that something very wrong is happening to it. Did...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over – and it...
This is the world 200 million years ago. No cell phones, electricity or even other humans. Would you be able to survive in this new world? Could you get yourself a pet...
Danger does not always announce itself. In many parts of the world, an ordinary trip through a city can become dangerous simply because someone happens to be in the...
Our Moon quietly shapes life on Earth, from stabilizing our climate to driving ocean tides and lighting the night sky. But what if we swapped it for other moons from...
What if everyone on the planet coordinated to perform the biggest “flush mob” in history? Pushing all the wastewater in the world down the drain, all at once...
The First World War began on July 28, 1914, when Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia, triggering a rapid chain reaction across Europe. Within days, the conflict...
Wandering off a hiking trail might start as an innocent way to explore nature, but now everything around you looks identical. The trees all blend together, the path has...
Cats are known for being independent, mysterious, and sometimes a little strange. They can ignore their owners for hours, knock objects off tables for no reason, and act...
Everybody farts. And it’s no secret that they’re smelly, gross, and embaressing at times. But what if, instead of trying to hide our flatulence, we all just...
Humanity has built some incredibly destructive weapons. There are still roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads on Earth today, capable of causing catastrophic damage to human...
Sabaneta Prison stood in the scorching border city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Built in 1958, it was divided into four areas, each filled with a different kind of prisoner...
There could be dozens of them in your local creek. Snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtles in North America. And although they might seem slow and sluggish...
While it might be nice to avoid any dangerous confrontations on your wilderness walks, life without wildlife would be pretty boring. If we didn’t have animals...
There have been 108 billion Homo sapiens born on Earth. But you are the very last one. With no other babies being born after you, you would be the end of the human race...
We’re trained to love summer. From the moment you start school, the year splits neatly into term time and those long empty months, and even after you’re...
Humanity has spent the last 100 years increasing our dependence on electricity. Look around…. your computer, air conditioner, microwave, fridge, elevator, traffic...
No more vast, barren deserts. Because we are going to turn them all into lush, green farmlands. How would we go about bringing new life to hot deserts? How much would...
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...
