New Bilibid Prison is supposed to be one of the most secure prisons in the Philippines. But before dawn on October 9, 2020, violence erupted inside its maximum security...
A political meeting in medieval Germany was supposed to settle a bitter land dispute. Instead, a crowded room gave way beneath the officials, sending dozens of people...
Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet. But about 175 million years ago, the Earth...
What if we found the way to drain all the Earth’s oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? How long would it take? Years...
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...
First up, it’s the star-spangled nation that is no stranger to battle. It’s the United States of America! The U.S. spends so much on its military that its...
Titan is one of the most fascinating moons in the entire Solar System. It orbits Saturn like a frozen jewel, wrapped in a thick orange atmosphere and covered in lakes...
Black holes aren’t exactly a popular vacation destination. They feed on anything and everything that comes into their vicinity. They are dense, and unpredictably...
It was supposed to be a night out filled with rock music, cheap beer, and a performance from Great White. On February 20, 2003, around 450 people packed into The Station...
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...
One minute, you’re setting up a new space station orbiting Jupiter. The next, you’re plunging right into the middle of a giant, red cyclone of death. What...
There is a rule in Jamaica that sounds like folklore and functions like a safety protocol. Never pick the fruit until it smiles. That is the local description for what...
In 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 3,853 prisoners died in state and federal facilities. And with 600,000 people entering the American jail and...
410 kilometers (254 miles) above the Earth. That’s where the International Space Station floats. What if you happened to be all the way up here but suddenly fell...
A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won’t hit the Earth. This asteroid is about to slam into the Moon and crack it right in half. What would it be like...
Imagine waking up one morning to find our Sun replaced by a cosmic powerhouse far stranger than anything we have seen. From giants that could swallow planets whole to...
In six hours, you, your government, and 124 million other people across 14 states will be tested by the greatest disaster to ever hit the U.S. East Coast. A great wave...
Every wild animal keeps a distance from humans. That instinct is the only thing standing between us and most predators on Earth. Now imagine a creature large enough that...
Elon Musk has just claimed Mars as his own personal planet. Building his own human colony on the Red Planet, independent of Earth and with it’s own set of laws...
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Rising temperatures are melting ice, intensifying storms, damaging ecosystems, and threatening...
