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      Earth

      What If Pangea Never Broke Apart?

      September 9, 2019
      Cosmos, MSN

      5 Things You Need to Know If You Fell Into Neptune

      August 25, 2025
      Cosmos

      What If a Magnetar Collided With a Black Hole?

      February 7, 2020
      Humanity

      What If We Settled on the Moon?

      August 12, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If You Took a Ride on Halley’s Comet?

      August 4, 2022
      MSN New, Earth

      An Iceberg Falls Into a Volcano, and Instead of Cooling It Down, Things Get Worse

      Picture yourself standing beside a volcano about to erupt, the ground is shaking, smoke is rising, and deep below, molten rock is moving towards the surface. Now picture...

      MSN New, Earth

      Earth Just Gained 79 Moons Overnight, and Here’s How Fast It Turns to Chaos

      Look up tonight and you would see 79 moons instead of one. Most would look like unusually bright stars, but four of them would hang there as full glowing disks. It would...

      HTS MSN

      What to Do in the First 5 Minutes of a Bullet Wound

      Gun-related deaths and injuries occur around the world everyday. In the United States alone, there are more than 100 gun-related deaths daily. And 200 more people are...

      MSN New, Earth

      Millions of Maya May Have Lived Here, and the Forest Kept It Secret for Centuries

      For centuries, it looked like nothing but jungle. Dense Guatemalan rainforest stretching in every direction, hiding what turned out to be one of the largest ancient...

      HTS MSN

      How to React When the Mountain Above You Starts to Fall

      Carved by glaciers thousands of years ago, the cliffs of California’s legendary Yosemite National Park constantly change shape. Due to tectonic forces and seasonal...

      MSN New

      Is There Life on Venus? What Scientists Just Found

      Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according to scientists, we may be closer than ever...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If North America Suddenly Sank Beneath the Ocean?

      Imagine if Earth suddenly lost an entire continent. North America wouldn’t just vanish off the face of the planet, of course. Instead, it would sink into the...

      Science

      What If Extinct Animals Could Be Brought Back to Life?

      What do saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and the dodo all have in common? They’re all extinct, and some theorize humans played a large part in this. What if...

      Humanity

      What If You Had to Live Through 2020 All Over Again?

      2020 has been one of the worst years in human history. It’s been strange, confusing, and often terrifying. But what if when the clock strikes midnight on December...

      HTS MSN

      Everything Movies Taught You About Quicksand Is Wrong

      Picture this, you’re having a nice, relaxing walk on a private beach without a care in the world. All of a sudden, your foot drops into a deep and mucky puddle...

      Earth

      What If There Were Only 1,000 People Left on Earth?

      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...

      HTS MSN

      10 Most Dangerous Jellyfish and How to Survive Them

      Tentacles meters long that can tangle around you and stingers ready to inject deadly venom. They can be almost entirely seethrough, making them the perfect killer in...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      What If the US and Israel Split?

      The US and Israel have been allies for nearly 80 years. Billions in weapons. Dozens of UN vetoes. It’s a relationship that defined the modern Middle East. But what...

      MSN New, Humanity

      The Attack Would Start Before a Single Soldier Landed, and You Would Feel It at the ATM

      There would be no landing craft on the horizon. No sirens. No declaration on the news. The first thing you would notice is that your card does not work. That is how a...

      MSN New, Earth

      Another Planet Just Slammed Into Earth, and Here’s What’s Left

      About 50 billion rogue planets are roaming the Milky Way with no host star to hold on to, some of them three times bigger than the Earth. They don’t give off any...

      Earth, MSN New

      6 Catastrophic Effects If Earth Had Venus’s Atmosphere

      Imagine waking up on a version of Earth where the sky glows yellow, the air scorches your lungs, and the ground melts your shoes. That is what life would look like if...

      MSN New, Health

      Stanford Scientists Have Found a Way to Regrow Cartilage and Reverse Arthritis

      Millions of people worldwide live with arthritis, a condition that causes joint pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility. For decades, treatments have focused primarily on...

      HTS MSN

      Thousands Entered the Subway, Then a Deadly Gas Attack Began

      Millions of people packed into Tokyo’s subway system on the morning of March 20, 1995, exactly as they did every weekday. Trains ran on time. Office workers drank...

      Humanity

      What If North Korea Tsunami-bombed America?

      For decades, relations between America and North Korea have run from tense highs to some interesting lows. But what happens when two superpowers decide that enough is...

      HTS MSN

      How to Give Yourself the Best Odds of Surviving a Train Crash

      Passengers onboard your train start getting up from their seats, afraid and panicking. The brakes screech and squeal. Everyone’s thrown to the floor as the train...

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