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      What If Everyone Flushed at the Same Time?

      October 29, 2018
      Cosmos

      Why Can’t You Walk On Saturn?

      March 17, 2023
      Science

      What If A Mega-Tsunami Hit The United States?

      April 21, 2019
      Body

      What If You Slept for the Next 20 Years?

      July 9, 2021
      Science

      What If There Was Another Earth in Our Solar System?

      January 31, 2019
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      The First 24 Hours of a Zombie Apocalypse Would Decide Whether You Live

      The dead are rising. The infection is spreading faster than anyone can contain it, and defenses are already failing. A study by the University of Leicester theorized...

      Earth

      What If Earth Was a Massive Global City?

      Welcome to Earth City. Yeah, you heard that right. You’re not going on a globetrotting tour to see all the planet’s major cities. You’re already there. Today, the entire...

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      A 6 Year Old Fell 5 m From a Roller Coaster While His Mom Watched in Horror

      May 30, 2019, was supposed to be a normal spring break day at Lightwater Valley theme park in Yorkshire, UK. A mother and her 6 year old son boarded one of the...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If We Built a Second Artificial Moon?

      We can build really big things in space. Okay, not that big – yet. But we’ve packed the Earth’s lower orbit with about 5,000 satellites – some...

      Humanity

      What If Ukraine Couldn’t Grow Food This Summer?

      The war in Ukraine has altered the lives of millions. And has sent prices for goods like oil and natural gas skyrocketing around the world. But the worst may be yet to...

      Science

      Diving Into a Black Hole: Adventure or an Abyss?

      Say one day you were exploring space looking for a new planet for humans to inhabit, but came across a black hole and decided – why not check it out? Would you...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      We May Be About to Settle Our First Planet Beyond the Solar System

      For centuries, humans have dreamed about finding a new home among the stars. Earth is the only planet we know that supports life, but with thousands of planets...

      Earth Could Face a Planetary Rival, and Their Orbits Might Not Survive
      MSN New, Humanity

      Earth Could Face a Planetary Rival, and Their Orbits Might Not Survive

      In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits a Sun like star and sits in what scientists...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Why Humans Will Never Be Able to Set Foot on Saturn

      Trying to reach Saturn would take you into one of the strangest and most dangerous environments in the Solar System. From Earth, the planet appears peaceful, surrounded...

      HTS MSN

      What to Do in the First Hour of a Nuclear Meltdown

      You’ve seen what a nuclear meltdown can do to your body in the movies. It can cause strange deformities, radiation burns, and extra body parts. But how much of...

      Humanity

      What If Mullaperiyar Dam Suddenly Collapsed?

      This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any moment now. What could cause the dam to collapse...

      Science

      What If Extinct Animals Could Be Brought Back to Life?

      What do saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and the dodo all have in common? They’re all extinct, and some theorize humans played a large part in this. What if...

      Earth

      What If the Earth Was One Living Organism?

      Could we all just be a part of our planet’s life-support system? Even from space, you can see that the planet Earth is full of life. When you take a closer look...

      Humanity

      What If We Covered All the Roads with Solar Panels?

      We sure love our roads. We love them so much that we seem determined to pave the entire world. But maybe roads can become the future of renewable energy. That’s right...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      Did Scientists Just Discover an Exoplanet That Could Host Life?

      Scientists may have identified an exoplanet with the potential to support life, located 120 light-years from Earth. The planet, known as K2-18b, is classified as a Super...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If You Rode a Balloon to Space?

      Would you go to space if you had the chance? What if you could make the journey aboard a giant hydrogen balloon instead of a rocket? It might sound unusual, but this...

      MSN New, Earth

      Bugs the Size of Cars Once Ruled Earth What If They Returned?

      Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline when you stomped on a bug? Well, imagine how this guy is about to feel. Call the army, heck, call your mom, because the end is...

      Cosmos

      What If Another Sun Entered Our Solar System?

      With the vastness of the Universe, everything in it seems so spread out. But some objects are closer than you might realize. Every now and then, a random interstellar...

      Humanity

      What If a Massive Locust Swarm Attacked Your City?

      It’s about to get Old Testament here. What if the creepiest, crawliest, most catastrophic member of the Plagues of Egypt made an unexpected housecall? And decided your...

      Science

      What If There Was a Zombie Apocalypse?

      Grab your weapons, find your friends and get to your base. It’s zombie-hunting time! That thing you’ve been daydreaming about for years is finally happening...

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