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      What If You Were Attacked by a Megalodon?

      November 13, 2020
      Science

      What Happens If You Wake up During Surgery?

      March 22, 2019
      Science

      What If Dogs Didn’t Exist?

      March 1, 2019
      Humanity

      What If Everyone Flushed at the Same Time?

      October 29, 2018
      Humanity

      What If Civilization Collapses?

      April 26, 2021
      HTS MSN

      He Reached Through a Lion Enclosure to Pet a Lioness, Seconds Later Three Lions Attacked Him

      Dane Kieser was 16 years old, a high school rugby player from Pretoria, South Africa. Strong, athletic and familiar with lions, he had spent time around animals at the...

      Earth

      What If We Drained the Mediterranean?

      Scroll down to watch the video. Imagine the Mediterranean Sea is disappearing! Old shipwrecks are rearing their ugly heads as the water drains around them, and...

      MSN New, Earth

      Australia Was Terrifying Long Before Humans Arrived. Here Is What Hunted There

      Australians love to joke that everything in their country wants to kill you. The spiders, the snakes, the jellyfish, even the birds. They have no idea how good they have...

      MSN, Science

      What If The Neanderthals Had Not Gone Extinct?

      Wait a minute, Neanderthals are extinct? Before you laugh, check yourself. Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be...

      Earth, MSN New

      No Glow, No Warning, It Simply Arrives

      There would be no flash in the sky. No sirens. Nothing on the news telling you to take cover. A black hole does not announce itself. It gives off no light, no heat, no...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What if Humans Tried to Land on Kepler 452 b?

      Humanity has long imagined leaving Earth and establishing a second home among the stars. The idea of a backup planet is no longer confined to science fiction, especially...

      MSN New, Earth

      5 Monsters Ruled Prehistoric Australia, and Humans Had No Right to Survive Them

      Take a modern human and drop them into Australia around 100,000 years ago. No claws, no armor, no venom, no speed worth mentioning. Just soft skin and a decent brain...

      MSN New, Earth

      An Earth Full of Solar Roofs – Utopia or Reality?

      Rise. and. shine! Get up and seize the day! You can do anything under the sun…when the sun powers everything. Your phone, your home, and all that’s in...

      HTS MSN

      Solitary Confinement: What It Really Does to the Human Mind

      Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a prison. A cold, small room becomes your entire...

      MSN New

      Discover What Would Happen If a Megalodon Attacked a Human

      The most deadly predator of the sea spent its days conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but imagine...

      HTS MSN

      India’s Chernobyl: The Bhopal Tragedy

      On the night of December 2, 1984, the residents of Bhopal woke up choking on poison. The air smelled strange as people suddenly felt their eyes burning and their throats...

      MSN New

      What Would Happen If Ants Were the Size of Elephants?

      They can lift 5,000 times their body weight. They have armies in the thousands. And they outnumber us a million to one. But ants are tiny, right? Yeah, that’s not going...

      Humanity

      What If We Settled on the Moon?

      Imagine living on the Moon. You’d have the best view of Earth, enjoy bouncing around in zero gravity and living your life as an astronaut explorer. Ah...

      HTS MSN

      How to Avoid the Ladder Fall That Injures Thousands a Year

      Ladders have been part of human life for thousands of years. Ancient cave paintings dating back around 10,000 years even show people using ladders to reach higher places...

      MSN New, Science

      Why Are We Giving Human Brains to Monkeys?

      Could monkeys one day become more intelligent and work alongside humans? It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but scientists have already begun...

      Cosmos, Humanity, MSN New

      What If the Moon Landing Never Happened?

      It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living rooms as Apollo 11’s Eagle lander...

      MSN New

      If All Wildlife Disappeared, Humans Might End Up as the Lab Rats

      Rodents make up 75 percent of all animals used in scientific testing. They breed easily, and their physiology and genes overlap enough with ours to stand in for us. Take...

      Earth, MSN, MSN New

      Life in the Devonian Period: What It Was Really Like

      Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Polyhedron?

      Polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes. Anything that has multiple faces joined at their edges can be a polyhedron. Picture Earth as a six-sided cube. Or as a...

      MSN New

      We May Be About to Discover a Second Earth

      Could we be on the verge of finding a second Earth? Astronomers are searching the galaxy for a world that could support life as well as, or perhaps even better than, our...

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