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      What If a COVID Vaccine Were Available Tomorrow?

      November 19, 2020
      Body

      What Happens When You Get Sprayed by a Skunk?

      November 21, 2022
      Science

      What If You Fell Into Jupiter?

      December 5, 2018
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen If You Spent 5 Seconds on Io?

      1 month ago
      Cosmos

      What If We Nuked Mars?

      August 23, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If We Lived In a Galactic Zoo?

      Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Not by a creepy stalker, but by aliens. Yup, it might be happening. Just like we watch animals at the zoo, aliens may...

      MSN New

      The World’s Longest Living Animals

      While humans celebrate reaching a century of life some creatures are just getting started. From deep ocean depths to remote islands nature has engineered incredible...

      MSN, MSN New

      What Would Happen If You Broke the Rules in North Korea?

      Welcome to one of the most restrictive countries in the world. Ruled by an enigmatic, tyrannical and violent leader, North Korean citizens and tourists can be threatened...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Coldest Permanently Inhabited Place on Earth

      Deep in the frozen wilderness of eastern Siberia lies a village unlike anywhere else on Earth. Snow blankets the landscape for most of the year, the ground remains...

      Cosmos

      What if Some of the Space Facts You Believe Are Actually Untrue?

      12. THE SUN IS A GIANT BALL OF FIRE Did you know that the Sun isn’t really on fire? No. Our Sun isn’t a raging bonfire in the center of the Solar System...

      MSN New

      What If a Mole Rat’s Gene Could Make You Live Longer?

      What if reaching 150 years old was no longer science fiction? Imagine a world where aging slowed dramatically, cancer became far less common, and your body could repair...

      Earth

      What If We Drilled Through a Volcano?

      Volcanic eruptions can be devastating. So what if we took extreme actions to prevent them? How could we drill into a volcano? What would be the benefits of doing this...

      Earth, MSN New

      7 Lies You Were Told About Dinosaurs

      When you think of dinosaurs, images of giant, scaly reptiles like the Tyrannosaurus Rex probably come to mind. Movies, textbooks, and popular culture have shaped our...

      Humanity

      What If All People on Earth Lived in the Same Skyscraper?

      With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing every single person on Earth in one giant...

      Cosmos

      What If a Supernova Exploded Close to Earth?

      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...

      MSN New, Science

      What If Neanderthals Still Existed Today?

      Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even...

      Earth

      What If You Fell Into a Pool Full of Sharks?

      Sharks are the oceans’ primary predators. Eating every fish in their path. But what if you ended up in a pool full of them, and you were the prey? What would...

      Humanity

      What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

      If you traveled 10,000 years into the future, what would planet Earth look like? Would most of its surface be covered in volcanoes? Or would it be frozen in ice? What if...

      Earth, MSN New

      What Really Happened After the Dinosaurs Went Extinct?

      Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The impact was so devastating that it wiped out the...

      MSN New

      What If There Were a Permanent Solar Eclipse?

      The last time the world witnessed a total solar eclipse was in 2017, and its presence delighted enthusiastic sky watchers. But what if, instead of a rare phenomena, a...

      MSN New

      What If You Spent 5 Seconds in the Mariana Trench?

      The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the world’s oceans, located in the western Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands. At its lowest point, the Challenger...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If 3I/ATLAS Struck Earth at Full Speed?

      Meet comet 3I/Atlas. A collision with this rock would release the same kind of energy that a certain other asteroid did 66 million years ago, ending the reign of the...

      Science

      The What If Show During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      The current coronavirus crisis is a difficult time for all of us. We want you, our fans and your loved ones, to be informed about the coronavirus and what you can do to...

      Earth

      What If Earth Gradually Came to a Standstill?

      Right now, wherever you are, you are spinning with our planet at hundreds of meters per second. But what if our planet started hitting the brakes until our world didn’t...

      Earth

      What If Starbucks Dumped Its Waste in the Amazon?

      Starbucks could save the Amazon rainforest. Okay, maybe not completely, but it could help the Amazon rainforest regrow. And all Starbucks would need to do is dump some...

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