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...
A snake bite can turn into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Every year millions of people worldwide are bitten by venomous snakes, and some cases end in...
You’re walking down the street when a stranger approaches you and suddenly throws a cup of liquid in your face. Your skin and eyes start burning, and you can’t see...
Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than Earth’s. Planet Nine, also known by its...
If you hear any strange noises while visiting Komodo Island, don’t go to check them out. Because you might find yourself face-to-face with the world’s...
A sudden reduction in size, shrinking by one centimeter per second, would expose a human to progressively smaller scales of the natural world, from ordinary objects to...
Ah, the planet Earth, our beautiful home. We’d like to believe it will be around forever, but what if it isn’t? Aliens, comets, weapons of mass destruction, black...
A brand new continent has emerged in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A process that would typically take millions of years happened overnight. How would this disrupt...
Most of Bhopal was asleep when the disaster began. It was late on December 2, 1984, and millions of people had settled into the night, unaware that a deadly chemical...
President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. Trump is 74 years old, and not to mention overweight. Advanced age and obesity are two factors that put someone...
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Eye Makeup The people of Ancient Egypt were already using eye makeup as early as 4000 B.C., making them one of the first civilizations to develop cosmetics. Both men and...
For over half a century, we’ve searched for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. But it’s, been, well, a little quiet. Are they ignoring us? Or...
Militaries around the world are money-eating machines. And they keep getting more expensive. In 2019, the world spent $1.917 trillion on all the different militaries...
You’re sitting in a small boat in the middle of a quiet lake with your fishing line stretched out into the water. Nothing about it feels threatening. Then the air...
The jury found you guilty. The judge sentenced you to one of the most dangerous prisons on Earth. And if you’re not careful, you could spend the rest of your life...
The universe is vast, ancient, and mostly silent. For decades, scientists have pointed their telescopes toward distant stars, searching for signs of intelligent life. We...
Star is about to transform into a black hole. And we’re about to travel inside it to see what’s on the other side. The only problem is that we’ll never...
For most runners, a mountain trail is a place to challenge yourself, escape the noise of everyday life and enjoy the scenery. But even familiar outdoor environments can...
MSN New, Cosmos
A Gamma Ray Burst Is Headed Straight for a Black Hole, and Reality Is About to Get Extreme
Picture a burst of energy so powerful that it can outshine entire regions of the cosmos, racing directly toward an object with gravity strong enough to trap light. A...
