For thousands of years, a forgotten village lay hidden beneath layers of sand on a remote island in Scotland. Its stone walls, ancient furniture, and mysterious rooms...
Don’t be fooled by these gentle waves. These still waters hide a 20 million year death match between two prehistoric monsters. Grab some popcorn and a snorkel. You...
South Africa’s Kruger National Park is huge and includes about five million acres of wild land; within it are some of the world’s most protected animals...
How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...
When most people imagine dinosaurs, they picture giant reptiles covered in thick scales, with rough skin similar to modern lizards or crocodiles. But an extraordinary...
What does wealth look like to you? Is it a hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? A million dollars? We can always go higher. But how much is too much? In today’s...
The Earth is a dying rock and time is running out. You only have 10 years to plan your escape. How could we evacuate as many people as possible? What resources would we...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] On average, you produce just over 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) of waste each day. That may not sound like a whole lot, but...
MSN New, Humanity
Humanity Just Learned to Harness the Full Power of the Sun, and Here’s What Changed
For thousands of years, humanity has depended on energy to build civilizations, develop technology, and improve the way we live. From burning wood in ancient times to...
If you’re watching this right now, you’ve probably used antibiotics at some point in your life. But did you really need to? The Centers for Disease...
You just fell into a pool with this thing. What is this? How would falling in here affect your health? And could you actually survive this? This is a spent nuclear fuel...
Every animal on this planet lives at our convenience. We decide which ones get eaten, which get displayed behind glass, which sleep on the sofa, and which get hunted for...
Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of disaster the planet could throw...
MSN New, Cosmos
Saturn’s Rings Are Only the Beginning, and the Planet Beneath Them Is Far More Extreme
As you approached Saturn, you would be the first human to take in the glory of its rings and its swirling atmosphere in person. Along the way, you would pass a few of...
What began as an ordinary afternoon performance at SeaWorld Florida suddenly became one of the most disturbing incidents in the park’s history. On February 24th, 2010...
It’s dawn, it’s dark, and you don’t what kind of weather is waiting for you outside your tent. It doesn’t matter anyway. In rain, hail, sleet...
That’s no moon. It’s a space station. The enormous, planet-killing kind, designed for only one thing — to bring order to the galaxy. It’s Star...
Cities have been named after it, economies have been built on it, wars have been fought over it, your life depends on it. Salt may be the most important, and the most...
Scroll to the bottom to watch our video. We love our convenience — single-use plastic utensils, paper plates, disposable cups, plastic wrap, wrapping paper for...
In 2015, NASA’s super powerful Kepler Space Telescope discovered the closest copy of Earth to date. It’s called Kepler-452. Often nicknamed “Earth 2...
