British chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his Sky News team were trying to reach Kyiv when they found themselves driving through an area that seemed strangely quiet...
Jeremy Sutcliffe thought the most dangerous part of his encounter with a rattlesnake was already over. In 2018, Jeremy was working in his backyard when he suddenly heard...
Earth occupies a remarkably convenient position around the Sun. We orbit within a region where temperatures can potentially allow liquid water to remain on a...
Imagine waking up tomorrow and realizing you no longer need a phone, a keyboard, or even a screen. You simply think about a question, and the answer appears in your mind...
One billion years into the future, you might imagine a world full of artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and space colonies. Maybe we’ll see the end of...
You are hiking through a quiet forest when you suddenly hear a strange buzzing sound. At first, it seems harmless. But within seconds, the noise becomes louder and...
With every rocket we launch into the Earth’s orbit, we’re trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending rockets into space put an end to...
Have you ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut? Well now’s your chance. You’ve been selected as one of the first members of a new human settlement. But you’d...
The modern circus was never the same after 1812; what had previously been concerned with horse tricks, musicians, and clowns started to include wild animals and began...
Imagine floating silently above cities, countryside, and wilderness, traveling in luxurious airships without engines roaring or massive amounts of fuel being burned. A...
Within the vastness of the Universe, humanity is not that big of a deal. We’re not here because we’re meant to be here, we’re just… here. If...
It was March 17, 2009, a cold morning that journalist Euna Lee would later describe as the day her life changed forever. Lee and fellow journalist Laura Ling were...
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...
The Earth is a dying rock and time is running out. You only have 10 years to plan your escape. How could we evacuate as many people as possible? What resources would we...
Every six years in Japan, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to witness one of the world’s most dangerous religious festivals. Massive logs thunder down steep...
There could be dozens of them in your local creek. Snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtles in North America. And although they might seem slow and sluggish...
Black holes are often imagined as cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow everything nearby, but what would really happen if you entered one even for a single nanosecond...
Hearing someone scream “snake!” can cause people to panic. And when you’re in the shallow, murky rivers of South America, home to the deadly anaconda, you realize this...
Do you get a little nervous before a flight? If you do, you’re not alone. Between 33% and 40% of people feel some form of anxiety when they board a plane. While a giant...
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...
