How fast can a lion kill you? In the right circumstances, it can happen frighteningly quickly. Lions can reach speeds of around 50 mph, leap more than 30 feet, and...
In five billion years, we’re gonna have a hefty problem on our hands. Well, only if we’re still living on Earth at this point. Our Sun will be on the brink...
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...
Right now, there are 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth. Just one of those volcanoes could do catastrophic damage. But at midnight tonight, every volcano on the planet is...
Looks can be deceiving. A simple looking Raggedy Ann doll sits behind glass. Harmless, almost nostalgic. The kind of toy you’d expect in a child’s bedroom. But according...
Imagine waking up tomorrow in a timeline where Thomas Edison was never born. No Wizard of Menlo Park. No mountain of patents. No famous inventor dominating the headlines...
The Sun is Yellow If you’ve always thought our star was a bright yellow ball of fire, you were wrong. For starters, it’s not yellow. It’s green. Sort...
The Middle Ages, a time when you were more likely to die on the toilet than take a bath. And now you’re going there with an educational mission. It’s up to...
What if all the coral reefs died out? What if we lost all of our coral reefs overnight? Ocean diving would become less impressive, that's for sure. But what about the...
What’s the best place to put solar panels? Close to the Sun, of course. And in this scenario, we’re going to build the most efficient solar farm possible...
Cape buffaloes in Africa are referred to as the Black Death since they kill more hunters than any other animal on the continent; and if one of these huge animals decides...
What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the picture? Only in the past year, our...
You are enjoying a peaceful day aboard a cruise ship. The ocean is calm, the sun is shining, and everything feels safe. Then, without warning, disaster strikes. A rogue...
On June 23, 2018, twelve boys from a youth soccer team known as the Wild Boars and their assistant coach entered Thailand’s Tham Luang cave system after soccer practice...
Life on Earth began in one of the most mysterious processes in science, occurring roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the planet was still forming and extremely hostile...
A massive asteroid just hit Earth, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to NASA’s new infrared telescope, we were able to detect it and prepare for the...
Let me take you on a wild ride to the very edges of our Universe. But it won’t be as simple as traveling through space. Because the edges that we’re talking about...
For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin has been the central figure of modern Russian politics. A former KGB officer, he has carefully shaped an image of strength...
An earthquake can start without any warning. One second everything feels normal, and the next a deep rumble shakes the ground. Dishes crash, objects fall from shelves...
No, that’s not Photoshop. That’s an actual video from the International Space Station of the Moon looking a bit squished. Wow, so what happened here? Is the...
