These slithering creatures can live in the smallest corners of your home and the darkest places you don’t dare visit. Well, not anymore, because today we’re...
One quadrillion gauss. A one with fifteen zeros behind it. That is the magnetic field strength of a magnetar, and to put it in perspective, Earth’s own field...
Imagine waking up tomorrow to complete silence. No buzzing bees, no chirping crickets, no butterflies drifting through gardens, and not even a single ant crawling across...
Alright, I think it’s time for a change-up. Let’s do a little spring cleaning, and redecorate our Solar System. Now, I know you’re a big fan of the Moon, but it’s so...
Kenton Carnegie was a 22 year old honors geological engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He was doing a co op at a mining camp near...
World War II produced countless brutal battles, but few are surrounded by as much mystery and horror as the events on Ramree Island in 1945. At the time, roughly 1,000...
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The Nearest Star Would Be Close Enough to Reach, but There May Be No Metal to Build With
Imagine a night sky where the nearest star is close enough to actually visit. Not 4.37 light years away like Proxima Centauri, but a short hop by cosmic standards, one...
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for more than a month. So, what if it just NEVER reopens? Most people think they know what that looks like. Higher gas prices. You...
You look outside and see something terrifying. A massive tornado is moving toward you, and you know you need to find shelter immediately. Then, just when you think...
For thousands of years, snakes have been feared, hunted, and misunderstood. These creatures appear in almost every environment on Earth, from tropical jungles and...
Get ready for the most epic party of your life. Because someone replaced our Moon with a disco ball. How could you turn the Moon into a classic disco ball? How much more...
As the world watches the war Russia brutally started in Ukraine, you wonder how these countries would be different if the dictator Vladimir Putin never took office. Who...
They’re big, they’re scary and they can carry cars, cows and even a couple of houses. They can range from a simple dust storm to a force that can wipe out an...
Everyone has a moment they wish they could erase. Maybe it was an embarrassing decision, a missed opportunity, or a life changing mistake. The idea of turning back time...
The immunization battle against COVID-19 continues. This time, your pet’s life is at stake. Any animal’s life, for that matter. And even your life could be...
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...
Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments. Starting with the very first extinction...
If a human could somehow approach Saturn, the experience would be unlike anything in our Solar System. From a distance, the planet looks calm and elegant, wrapped in its...
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Latin America Became One Country Overnight, and the U.S. Would Face a New Superpower
Latin America is divided among more than 20 independent countries and territories, each with its own government, economy, culture, and history. Yet for centuries...
Few animals can perform feats that seem to defy gravity quite like the alpine ibex. Watching one calmly walk across a nearly vertical cliff face is enough to make even...
