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      Cosmos

      What If You Met a Time Traveler?

      September 19, 2019
      Body

      What If Your Skin Were Bullet-Proof?

      November 30, 2020
      Science

      What If the Earth Was a Moon of Jupiter?

      November 22, 2018
      Humanity

      What If Everyone Stopped Drinking Coffee?

      January 2, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If We Could Create a New Planet?

      January 10, 2022
      Earth

      What If the Yellowstone Volcano Erupted Tomorrow?

      Located in the United States, one of the world’s largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It’s known as the Yellowstone Volcano, and it’s not just...

      MSN New, Earth

      Scientists Discovered a Worm That Fences Rivals With Its Own Body

      In the underwater world, finding a mate can require some unusual strategies. While many animals compete with strength, colors, or displays of dominance, one tiny ocean...

      HTS MSN

      One Mistake During This 80 MPH Headfirst Slide Could Be Fatal

      Who doesn’t love a good race? But this time you’re going headfirst at 132 km/h (80 mph) down an icy track. Only 2.5 cm (1 in) separates the hard cold ice from your...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Aliens Are Actually Humans From the Future?

      What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in our galaxy? And what if this faraway planet...

      Cosmos

      6 Things That Would Happen If the Moon Had Its Own Moon

      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...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Built a Colony on Saturn’s Moon Titan?

      Swipe Down for Full Video Story Even if you were not 1.5 billion kilometers (900 million miles) from Earth, building a new community would still be a major challenge...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen If You Drank a Glass of Moon Water?

      Would you drink water that was extracted from the Moon? With NASA’s recent discovery of water on the Moon’s surface, it might become a more common practice...

      Cosmos

      What If We Built a Tower to Outer Space?

      Would you spend a night at the top of the first tower to space? At 100 km above sea level, it would be the highest structure that humans have ever built. This tower...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Earth Was Sandwiched Between Two Asteroid Belts?

      What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two asteroid belts in our Solar System? The short...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If We Relocated Humanity to Proxima B?

      Proxima b is very promising. It orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri in a system with three stars in it. Proxima Centauri is small. It only has between 7.5%...

      Cosmos

      What If Another Sun Entered Our Solar System?

      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...

      MSN New, Earth

      How Bad Would It Get If a Hypercane Formed in the Atlantic Tomorrow?

      A massive asteroid just hit Earth, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to NASA’s new infrared telescope, we were able to detect it and prepare for the...

      MSN New, Earth

      Antarctica’s Ice Is Holding Back a 70-Meter Wall of Water, and It’s Starting to Melt

      The Antarctic ice sheet covers 14 million square kilometers and averages two kilometers thick. Locked inside it is roughly 60 percent of all the freshwater on Earth. If...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Wormhole Just Opened in Space, and Nothing Around It Will Stay in Place

      Long before Hollywood got hold of the idea, two physicists put it on paper. The year was 1935, and Albert Einstein working alongside Nathan Rosen described something...

      Science

      What If Earth Orbited Betelgeuse

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Unlike in the movie, you don’t have to say it three times to make it...

      MSN New

      What Is Hiding Inside the World’s Largest Underwater Art Museum?

      Beneath the crystal clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean, something unexpected is taking shape. Divers descending toward the seafloor are often met with a strange sight...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If Our Mountains Collapsed?

      Mountains. They’re born, they grow, they age and erode. And after a very, very long life, they turn to dust. What if all mountains collapsed at once? What are the...

      MSN New

      They Found the Biggest Bat in the World

      When most people think of bats, they picture small, shadowy creatures fluttering through the night sky. But what if someone told you there was a bat with a wingspan...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      Life If You Were Born on Mars

      Martians might really exist… In the future. But instead of the aliens of sci-fi movies, martians would be humans born and raised on Mars. Why would your skin be...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If These 5 Things Vanished for Just 5 Seconds?

      There are some things you just can’t live without. Like gravity, oxygen, the Sun’s warmth. And we’re about to take those vital things away from you...

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