Sea levels have gone up 20cm (8″) since 1850, but it was unevenly distributed around the globe. That’s roughly half the height of a bowling pin, 3.5 times the size...
Imagine swimming in the open ocean and suddenly coming face to face with a monster larger than any shark alive today. Faster than a speeding boat and armed with crushing...
Imagine, it comes out of nowhere. A blinding flash, spanning the entire globe. It lasts only a few seconds, but when it’s over, everyone’s memories have been...
It’s the middle of the night, and you hear a squeaking sound coming from your attic. You get up to investigate, and as soon as you pull the attic ladder down, a...
I’m not talking about a gourmet dinner. There’s no wining and dining here. Instead, you’re seeing a wake of vultures tucking into what might be their...
In October 1974, Rhonda Stapley, a young pharmacy student at the University of Utah, was waiting for the bus to campus when a Volkswagen Beetle pulled up. The driver was...
For more than a century, humanity has relied heavily on fossil fuels to power modern civilization. Oil, natural gas and coal have supplied most of the world’s...
Moving is never easy. The packing and unpacking, having to start fresh and make new friends, all this can be challenging. Let’s face it, whether it’s a nasty...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Even if you were not 1.5 billion kilometers (900 million miles) from Earth, building a new community would still be a major challenge...
In 1850, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, we’ve managed to bring that number down to roughly 10%. And if this trend continues...
Birthday balloons falling limply to the ground. Satellites, medical scanners and TVs fading to black. And twinkling stars in the night sky disappearing one by one. All...
This is our Universe, an ever-expanding network of stars and galaxies. And this is your brain. Don’t they look eerily similar to one another? Why are they so alike...
Just four light-years from Earth lies the closest known exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b. It has captured imaginations because it could be one of the first exoplanets where...
The Solar System may appear calm and well organized, but it is actually the result of billions of years of delicate cosmic balancing. Changing the order of the planets...
On March 23, 2024, brothers Taylen and Wyatt Brooks headed into the woods near Georgetown, California, to search for deer antlers. Both were experienced hunters and...
Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and frightening tools ever created by humanity. With over twelve thousand warheads spread across the globe, these devices hold...
Most people would probably run in the opposite direction after seeing a tarantula. Despite their frightening appearance, these enormous spiders usually prefer to avoid...
For decades, plastic has been building up across the planet. It fills landfills, floats through oceans, and has even been discovered in drinking water, food, and the air...
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...
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 14 million square kilometers and averages two kilometers thick. Locked inside it is roughly 60 percent of all the freshwater on Earth. If...
