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      What If You Didn’t Wash Your Bed Sheets for a Month?

      May 19, 2021
      Science

      What If We Built an Artificial Planet?

      November 29, 2018
      Humanity

      What If Time Is an Illusion?

      December 3, 2018
      Science

      What Would It Take to Terraform the Moon?

      May 16, 2018
      Body

      What If a Cockroach Crawled Into Your Brain?

      July 13, 2020
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      Tortured in North Korea: The Timothy Cho Tragedy

      Imagine being just 11 years old and being forced to stand in a public square alongside other children from your neighborhood. In front of you, a man is tied to a post. A...

      HTS MSN

      How to Survive an Electric Eel Shock and What Happens to Your Body

      You’re wading in a pond in the Amazon Rainforest when something slimy brushes against your leg. Then you feel another one. And another. You look down to see that...

      Technology

      What If Google Went Offline for a Week?

      Whether it’s Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo, only one tech giant has reigned supreme when it comes to our search engines. Google. It’s so dominant around the...

      MSN New, Earth

      95 Times Earth’s Mass Is Coming Toward Us, and Nothing on Earth Would Stay the Same

      The Moon has been quietly orbiting Earth for billions of years. It lights up our nights, influences the tides, and appears harmless from a distance. But imagine stepping...

      MSN New, Earth

      Scientists Have a Risky Plan to Wake Up Volcanoes to Cool the Planet

      Several volcanoes around the world are being woken up on purpose. The mission? To use volcanic eruptions to protect the Earth from global warming. In what ways could you...

      MSN New

      Scientists Say Teleportation May Already Be Closer Than You Think

      Imagine waking up in London, teleporting to your office in Tokyo, meeting friends for lunch in Mexico City, and ending the evening at an opera in Rome. It sounds like...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What Would Happen If Humans Became Immortal and Never Grew Old?

      For most of human history, living to old age was a rare achievement. Just over a century ago, the average life expectancy in the United States was only around 50 years...

      HTS MSN

      The Blue Flash Was the First Warning, and Within Days His Body Began Losing the Ability to Heal

      The accident began with a flash of blue light. For Hisashi Ouchi, a 35 year old worker at a nuclear fuel processing facility in Tokaimura, Japan, that brief glow marked...

      HTS MSN

      How to Live Without Sunlight on Earth

      They say doomsday is near. But you have been safe in your bunker for months, far away from the chaos outside. At first, isolation felt like protection. Now your body...

      MSN New, Earth, MSN

      Find Out Who Would Win in a Battle Between a Titanoboa and T-Rex

      Fifty-eight million years ago, the most dangerous snake to ever exist roamed the Earth. It was the apex predator of its time,terrorizing everything in sight. In one...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      A.I Predicts Why the U.S. Could Leave NATO in 2027

      What if a single decision shattered the world’s most powerful alliance overnight? Built on real-world data and analyzed through AI, this explores a worst-case chain...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Second Earth Appears in Our Solar System, and Everything About Life Would Change

      Back in 2015, NASA’s Kepler mission spotted a planet that looked remarkably close to our own, a world now known as Kepler 452b. It circles a star similar to the...

      HTS MSN

      Stranded in the Amazon, and the Jungle Has More Than 2.5 Million Species Waiting

      You’ve finally made it! The trip of a lifetime. Wild nature, lush scenery, and exotic animals galore. It’s all good, as long as things go as expected. But in...

      Science

      What If You Lived Inside a Hologram?

      What if the Universe is an illusion? What if your reality is not what it seems to be? What if you are you’re just a 2D projection stretched on the surface of a...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen If the Sun Became a Black Dwarf and Left Earth in Darkness?

      What if instead of shining brightly for another 5 billion years, the only star in our Solar System turned into a dark and cold remnant? A black dwarf. How long would the...

      MSN New, Earth

      Earth’s Oceans Slowly Lose Their Salt, and the Entire Planet Begins to Collapse

      Earth depends on countless natural systems working together. The atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms constantly influence each other, creating the conditions...

      MSN New, Technology

      Google Just Went Dark for a Week, and the Chaos Was Instant

      Whether it’s Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo, only one tech giant has reigned supreme when it comes to our search engines. Google. It’s so dominant around the...

      Cosmos

      14 of the Most Terrifying Planets in the Universe

      The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them...

      MSN New, Earth

      6 Strange Shapes Earth Could Take

       

      Science

      What If We Stopped Doing Science?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Science. It has saved billions of lives, allowed us to discover new worlds, and helped the world’s...

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