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      Cosmos

      What If a Marshmallow Hit the Earth at the Speed of Light?

      March 14, 2022
      Body

      What If You Didn’t Wash Your Hands for a Year?

      March 27, 2020
      Science

      What If You Were 5 Meters Tall?

      June 23, 2019
      Science

      What If Earth Had a Global Hyperloop Network?

      November 24, 2018
      Body

      50 Years With Braces: What Happens When You Never Take Them Off

      July 22, 2025
      Earth

      What If Antarctica’s Dormant Volcanoes Woke Up?

      Scroll down to watch the video. Deep beneath the thick layer of million-year-old ice, something is lurking quietly, waiting to rip through the rigid ice sheets. This...

      HTS MSN

      Flesh-Eating Bacteria Spreads Fast. Could You Beat It?

      Flesh-eating bacteria? Uh oh … you may want to have a seat. This is going to be a doozy. It turns out that you’ve got a problem. You’ve become a walking buffet for an...

      MSN New, Earth

      71 New Species Were Found in One Year, So What Else Is Still Hiding?

      The truth is out there. With thousands of sightings, theories and believers, the creature known as Bigfoot has become the stuff of legend. What if this fabled cryptid...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Jupiter Trapped the Ingredients for Planets, and Earth Was Built From Them

      Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single cosmic trap hiding behind the biggest...

      MSN New, Humanity

      The Domino Effect: How Europe’s Gas Woes Could Trigger a Global Catastrophe

      Turn off one pipeline in Europe and the effects don’t stop at cold houses. They run through fertilizer production, then through food supply, then through global...

      Cosmos, Humanity, MSN New

      What If the Moon Landing Never Happened?

      It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living rooms as Apollo 11’s Eagle lander...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Trump and Putin Invaded Europe?

      This war didn’t come out of nowhere. The signs were hiding in plain sight. Trump slams Europe with devastating tariffs, crippling economies across the continent...

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      She Was Attacked by a Bobcat, Then Tests Confirmed It Had Rabies

      This might look like a larger, cuddly version of your domesticated house cat. But it’s a large, fierce predator that can severely injure you. Bobcats are sometimes...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Each Planet Would Reshape the Human Body in a Different, Disturbing Way

      If humans began living permanently on other planets, future generations would not look or function like us. Each planet’s unique gravity, atmosphere, temperature, and...

      HTS MSN

      What Was Really Like Inside Miami-Dade County Jail?

      Miami-Dade County Jail is one of the largest jail systems in the United States, with an average of 4,000 inmates spread across its three main detention facilities...

      HTS MSN

      How to Survive Being Poisoned, According To Science

      Even if you never realize you’ve been exposed to something toxic, your body will usually give warning signs. Symptoms like vomiting, difficulty breathing, sudden...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Surprising Reason This Opossum Only Looks Dead

      Imagine finding an animal lying completely motionless on the ground. Its body is limp, its eyes appear lifeless, and it seems as though something terrible has happened...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Scientists Discovered Astronauts Could Build a Moon Base From Human Urine

      Building a permanent base on the Moon has always come with one major challenge: how do you transport enough construction materials from Earth? Every kilogram launched...

      MSN New, Humanity

      The 5 Most Evil Leaders History Tried to Hide

      Throughout history certain leaders have acquired immense power at a human cost which is unimaginable. Although their governments promised progress, a revolution or a...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Great Attractor Is Pulling 100,000 Galaxies Toward It, and We Can’t Escape

      These balls represent one of the strangest phenomena currently taking place in our Universe. Each ball symbolizes one of 100,000 galaxies , including our own that are...

      MSN New, Earth

      Mushrooms Taller Than Trees Once Covered the Earth, and Here’s What Happened

      Yet over time, they disappeared and evolved into the smaller versions we know and love today. But what if we found a way to bring them back? Why did giant mushrooms go...

      Humanity

      Why 99% of Humanity Is Lost to Time

      As the nukes dropped on every major city around the globe, everyone sought shelter, but there was nowhere to hide. In an instant, civilization as we knew it was...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen Inside Jupiter’s Atmosphere If You Made Fire?

      Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. It is more than 300 times more massive than Earth, yet it is far less dense. Unlike Earth, it does not have a solid...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Jupiter Just Lost All Its Moons, and the Fallout Is Catastrophic

      What if Jupiter’s 79 moons weren’t gravitationally bound to Jupiter? What if they became rogue objects orbiting on their own paths around the Sun? Would they still be...

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      They Tried to Live in the World’s Most Radioactive Wasteland, but Survival Came With a Price

      On a crisp April morning in 1986, the world stood in awe, terrified of the most catastrophic nuclear meltdown ever witnessed. And this power plant, located in Ukraine...

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