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      Cosmos

      What If You Found Life on Europa?

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      Cosmos

      What If The Planets Changed Position Based on Size?

      June 29, 2025
      Humanity

      What If Aliens Are Future Versions of Humans?

      August 4, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If We Replaced Our Moon With a Disco Ball?

      June 23, 2022
      Survival, Earth

      How to Survive the Killer Lakes

      November 2, 2022
      MSN New

      Historians Discovered an Ancient Civilization’s 2,000 Year Old Computer

      For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of...

      Cosmos

      7 Things That Would Happen If You Visited the Planet With Hot Ice

      Imagine landing on a planet where the surface looks frozen but burns hotter than your oven. Welcome to Gliese 436b, one of the strangest known planets in the universe...

      MSN New, Earth

      Two Quakes Left Visible Cracks, and 3.5 Million People Live in the Path

      Two earthquakes have already cracked it. One in 1979. Another in 2011. Both left visible fractures in the wall of a dam that was built more than a century ago, and both...

      MSN New

      How Long Is the Fall From the World’s Tallest Building?

      Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. This masterpiece in Dubai is twice the height of the U.S.’s Empire State Building. And it’s almost three...

      Health, MSN New

      World Health Day: What If We Had a Secret Weapon Against Cancer?

      In 1977, Richard Peto, a British epidemiologist, theorized that large-bodied animals like elephants are more likely to contract cancer because of a higher number of...

      HTS MSN

      The World’s Deadliest Spider and How to Survive It

      It happens in an instant. A sharp pain shoots through your foot. You look down, expecting a small insect or a thorn, but instead you catch a glimpse of something dark...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Hidden Danger Beneath Antarctica’s Ice

      Beneath Antarctica’s endless white surface lies a world most people never think about. Under kilometers of solid ice, the continent hides a landscape shaped by fire...

      HTS MSN

      How the Rare Few Have Survived Going Over Niagara Falls

      Located on the border of Ontario, Canada, and New York State, this amazing waterfall system is comprised of three different waterfalls with a combined width of 1,204 m...

      Earth, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Every Ocean on Earth Went Dry?

      What if we found the way to drain all the Earth’s oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? Ocean water makes up 70% of the...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If the Entire Arctic Collapsed Into One Giant Pit?

      The peaceful sound of water flowing through a frozen landscape may seem harmless. But in the Arctic, that sound can represent something much more serious. It is a sign...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If We Killed All Mosquitoes?

      Swipe down for full video story! Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth, responsible for nearly one million human deaths each year. They transmit diseases such as...

      MSN New, Earth

      The 5 Hunters Evolution Should Have Never Created

      Evolution does not have a conscience. It does not ask whether something should exist. It only asks whether it works. And sometimes, what works is horrifying. Over...

      Earth

      What If Ants Were the Size of Elephants?

      They can lift 5,000 times their body weight. They have armies in the thousands. And they outnumber us a million to one. But ants are tiny, right? Yeah, that’s not going...

      Technology

      AI-Powered Heists: How ChatGPT Is Used to Steal Millions

      If a family member calls you from jail panicking and says they need you to wire them some money for legal fees, would you second guess them and potentially make the...

      Earth

      7 Alarming Things That Would Happen If the World Lost Oxygen for 5 Seconds

      Oxygen makes up only about 21 percent of the air we breathe, but it plays a much bigger role in holding life together and keeping our world intact. Imagine if, just for...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      If Earth Were the Center of the Solar System, the Sun Would Die and We’d Freeze Solid

      Put Earth at the center of the Solar System and something has to give. Gravity does not negotiate, so if everything is going to orbit us, the masses have to be...

      HTS MSN

      Why He Didn’t Survive The World’s Deepest Cave

      Deep beneath the mountains near the Black Sea lies Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth. The cave is filled with narrow tunnels, underground rivers, freezing...

      MSN New

      What If You Lived to See the End of Everything We Know?

      Billions of years from now, the Sun will enter the final stage of its life. It will swell into a massive red giant before eventually shrinking into a stellar remnant...

      Cosmos

      What If Earth Had Jupiter’s Atmosphere?

      Today on What If, we’re taking Jupiter’s deadly gases and unleashing them on Earth. Where could you be safe from these toxic winds? How would you breathe...

      MSN New

      Humanity Just Learned Earth Has 10 Years Left, and Panic Sets In

      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...

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