Humanity’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying all life on Earth. Over. And over. And over. Maybe it’s time we dumped it far away. We might want to inhabit...
This is the Universe. And this little dot here is the Earth. And this is a Big Bounce coming up, and it’s about to squash our planet. Yikes. How long would we have...
The world has ended. The sky has fallen. Doomsday has come and gone. So now what? Let’s start rebuilding civilization, of course. How would you begin to come back from...
Taller than a six-story building. Longer than three school buses. Ten times as heavy as an elephant. The largest dinosaur ever is coming back from extinction. What would...
Imagine traveling at the speed of an airplane, but on ground level, and in a giant tube. That’s the idea behind the Hyperloop, a network of incredibly fast...
Throughout history, humanity has faced existential threats like giant asteroids and invisible viruses. Despite the danger, we always bounce back. But how much longer can...
Do you ever question the nature of your reality? Are you real? Or are you a product of some complex computer simulation? What I’m about to tell you might change...
As tensions simmer in the Middle East, the world watches the shadow war between Israel and Iran with increasing concern. While both nations possess formidable military...
Hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones. They’re all one in the same. Storms. Now, the mother of all of them is about to hit New York and you’re caught right in the middle of it...
“Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth” That’s right. It’s...
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...
It’s the end of the world as you know it. Every human on Earth suddenly went extinct. And it’s time for nature to make its ultimate comeback. What would happen to...
If gravity were suddenly gone forever we’d all realize pretty quickly how much we’re taking this universal force for granted.
As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to the incredible force of nature’s biggest explosion, the supernova. As...
Two billion years ago, Earth was a strange and hostile place. It was an era marked by dramatic climate shifts, dangerous changes in the atmosphere, and the birth of...
Have you ever felt like it was so hot out that you could cook an egg on the road? Or do you enjoy incredibly spicy foods for the thrill of it? Well, imagine living in an...
Things are getting hotter and hotter here on Earth, and global warming has everyone panicking. But let us try a wild idea: what if we took every drop of Earth’s water...
Imagine a dry desert with endless sand dunes transforming into a lush, green tropical paradise before your eyes. This is the ambitious vision of terraforming the Sahara...
You pop out of the ocean and hear the faint yells of the lifeguard. The whole beach panics. Your turn around. Something lurks in the water. Before you can say...
Where did COVID-19 come from? Some think it originated in this Wuhan wet market. While others think it comes from bats. But could it be possible that COVID-19 was made...
