Imagine a world where we didn’t need any lights, where we could detect diseases just by looking at someone, and literally see right through people’s...
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She Was Trapped Between Two Parts of the Ride, and the Audience Thought It Was Part of the Act
Disneyland is famous for turning imagination into entertainment. Guests arrive expecting thrilling rides, colorful shows, and attractions designed to make them forget...
Point a light at it and the light does not come back. Almost none of it, anyway. The skin of this fish absorbs up to 99.5 percent of everything that touches it, which...
Komodo dragons, also known as Komodo monitors, are the largest lizards in the world. As adults, they have an almost-uniform stone color and can weigh around 70 kg (154...
It’s almost as old as the Universe, and as massive as 34 billion Suns. It eats stars for breakfast. And now it’s about to consume our own. Behold, the great...
Ask a human when we will walk on Mars and you get a dream. Ask the data and you get a date. Feed everything we know into the analysis, current space agency roadmaps...
You’ve made it to Galaxy 3812, a hypothetical galaxy that houses a type III civilization. One of the first things you’ll notice are the Dyson spheres that...
For generations, humans have dreamed of leaving Earth and exploring new worlds. From the first steps on the Moon to modern space missions, we have continued pushing...
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...
Imagine stepping outside your house and realizing you are never truly alone. A pigeon sits on a telephone wire across the street. A squirrel runs along a fence. A deer...
Imagine if Earth suddenly lost an entire continent. North America wouldn’t just vanish off the face of the planet, of course. Instead, it would sink into the...
Sixty six million years ago, a massive asteroid impact wiped out about three quarters of all life on Earth, including every non avian dinosaur. But what if science could...
Most of us think of contagious diseases as illnesses like the flu, the common cold, or strep throat. You catch them from someone else through viruses or bacteria...
What if everyone on the planet coordinated to perform the biggest “flush mob” in history? Pushing all the wastewater in the world down the drain, all at once...
Mike Hodge, who founded the Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi, South Africa, was surrounded by lions and tigers that he had looked after for many years, just as he...
Would you like to live forever? That may not be possible yet. But what if I told you your body could technically last for 150 years? What should you do to live that long...
To infinity, and beyond.
A black hole is on a collision course with our Sun. And there’s nothing left for you to do except sit back and watch the destruction of our entire Solar System. How...
Behind you, a colossal hurricane, moments away from making landfall. In front of you, a towering tornado, fast-tracking its way toward the opposing storm. And you...
You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it’s possible...
