At first thought, volcanoes might seem like the perfect natural disposal system. They are incredibly hot, appear to swallow anything in their path, and seem limitless in...
Kenton Carnegie was a 22 year old honors geological engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He was doing a co op at a mining camp near...
Hot sizzling salt beneath your feet. Sulfuric acid fumes burn your lungs with every breath you take. And if you don’t watch your step, you could fall on molten hot...
Do you love reaching speeds of 100 km/h, but hate all the pesky safety features of a car? Then street luging might be for you. This extreme sport is just like driving a...
Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor is one of the most extreme and hostile environments in the Solar System. With blistering temperatures, toxic clouds, and...
For thousands of years, woolly mammoths existed only in fossils, frozen remains, and cave paintings. But now, scientists are closer than ever to bringing these Ice Age...
A snake bite can turn into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Every year, millions of people around the world are bitten by venomous snakes, and some cases...
Six hundred and thirty-five light years away from Earth, there is a world that seems to promise something almost unimaginable: a planet covered in a vast liquid ocean...
Jupiter may be the biggest planet in the Solar System, but its days are numbered. Because today, we’re using Earth’s biggest, baddest bombs to blow the gas giant...
To meat, or not to meat: that is the hotly debated question. How would life on Earth change if we stopped eating all things animal?
Imagine landscapes across the world suddenly filled with people planting trees. Fields, hills, damaged forests, and abandoned land would become part of the largest...
Could there be an even better planet for us than Earth? Scientists are searching for a superhabitable world that wouldn’t just rival Earth, but be a place where life...
Even if you weren’t 1.5 billion km (900 million mi) away from Earth, starting a community is extremely hard. Luckily for you, we’re here to help you work out the kinks...
Scroll to the bottom to watch our video. We love our convenience — single-use plastic utensils, paper plates, disposable cups, plastic wrap, wrapping paper for...
Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, another group of fearless explorers had already reached North America. At the very edge of the...
Earth is perfectly balanced in space. It travels around the Sun on an elliptical path that gives us seasons without getting too close to our star. The Sun is 330,000...
Volcanos, the ultimate natural force of destruction. They’re unforgiving, uncompromising and unstoppable. About 1,500 volcanoes around the world are considered to be...
It’s been 100 Earth years since you settled on Mars. You’ve been through pain, loneliness and a lot of hard work. And now Mars is the new promised land everyone...
People are fighting over it in grocery stores all around North America. Some are selling it to make an immense profit. No, this isn’t the scene of some crazy...
Hoarders. They can’t bear to throw anything away. They pile up stuff everywhere, cluttering every space until they can’t move anymore. What if we could flip...
