A tornado can turn an ordinary afternoon into a terrifying emergency within minutes. Powerful rotating winds can tear roofs apart, overturn vehicles, snap trees, and...
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...
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AI Is Learning Your Weaknesses, Your Fears, and Your Desires, Then Comes the Real Problem
Artificial intelligence is getting better at understanding people every year. It recommends the movies we watch, the products we buy, and even the music we listen to...
For decades, marine parks presented killer whales as intelligent, powerful animals that could be trained to perform spectacular tricks. Audiences watched trainers swim...
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...
13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe emerged from one single point in space. This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the...
The core of Jupiter sits roughly 70,000 kilometers below the cloud tops, and nobody is ever getting there. Not a person. Not a spacecraft. Not anything humans have ever...
Common sense says that once a ship reaches the seabed, anyone still inside has minutes at most. The water gets in, the air runs out, and that is the end of it. One man...
In 1987, 24 year old American Ginger Meadows was visiting Cascade Falls in Australia, expecting to enjoy the beautiful scenery and warm weather. What she did not expect...
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Evolving 1,000 Years Overnight Would Make You Near-Immortal, but Turn Everyone Into Clones
Skip a thousand years of evolution overnight and you would wake up with a life expectancy of around 150 years. Nanobots monitoring your organs, engineered genes with...
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...
The ocean is one of the least explored places on Earth, yet it is home to some of the most incredible life forms ever discovered. From deep sea predators to massive...
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We Could Build a Civilization Among the Stars, but the Universe Would Never Feel Small
What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet...
Throughout history, certain murderers have committed crimes so horrifying that their names became permanently associated with fear. They often appeared ordinary on the...
Watch out for loose superbugs.
The scenery at Yellowstone did not form gently. Those valleys, ridges, and wide open basins were carved by explosions, and the most recent one happened roughly 640,000...
Do you know what’s worse than being tased? Being tased without any protection at all. Without the barrier of clothing, there is nothing between your skin and a high...
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We Could Capture a Visitor From Another Star, and It Might Reveal Secrets of an Alien World
Once in a while something drifts into our Solar System that has no business being here. It didn’t form around our Sun. It wasn’t born from the same cloud of...
Your hike in the woods ran a little late, and suddenly it’s pitch dark. You can’t see much, except for a pair of round, yellow lights. But they have started...
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?
