These shaggy haired herbivores are cousins to the modern day Asian elephant. Weighing in at 5.44 metric tons and around 3 to 4 meters (11 to 13 feet) tall, they were...
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...
Imagine an ultimate road trip across the globe. On a highway along the equator. Wait, there is no highway along the equator… yet. So how about we build one? What...
In 2020, when Kim Jong-Un disappeared for three weeks, the world went into full speculation mode. Was he ill? Dead? On a secret mission to binge-watch K-dramas? South...
Scroll down to watch our video. This may look like a regular airport, but people believe that beneath it there is an underground city. And not just any underground city...
So, is our world just an illusion? Why do some physicists believe that physical matter isn’t real? What scientific experiments have changed our view of reality...
The African night can become dangerous without much warning. A quiet campsite may seem completely safe, but the smell of food, discarded scraps, or even the sound of...
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...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
They Dropped Waste Straight Into the Moat, and Cholera Killed Them Within Hours
Picture the castle from the outside. Stone walls, high towers, a moat circling the base. Now picture what is actually in that moat. The upper classes of the Middle Ages...
Imagine if it were possible to pull energy straight out of empty space. Not from fuel, not from sunlight, but from nothing itself. At first, this idea sounds impossible...
Most of Bhopal was asleep when the disaster began. It was late on December 2, 1984, and millions of people had settled into the night, unaware that a deadly chemical...
It’s the end of your shift. Like every night, you walk down a quiet street toward the bus station. But then you hear it. Footsteps behind you. You glance back and see...
Under the pressure of crushing economic sanctions, Russia’s straining to play its own intimidation game. This time, they are threatening to take the International...
A Sherpa was missing for six days in Mount Everest’s death zone. He survived on discarded food left behind by previous climbers as he slowly crawled his way back to base...
Crocodiles are among the most dangerous predators in the water. Their powerful jaws allow them to seize prey with enormous force, and once they have their target in...
MSN New, Humanity
Humanity Reached Type VI Civilization, and Nothing in the Universe Would Be Out of Reach
For all the technology humanity has developed, our civilization is still remarkably primitive when viewed against the scale of the universe. The Kardashev Scale offers...
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...
They’ll take over your house, contaminate your food, and leave their feces all over the place. And in some cases, they can even expose you to dangerous diseases...
About 66 million years ago, Earth was struck by one of the most powerful events in its history. A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a mountain, was racing through...
Swimming alongside a giant whale can feel like entering another world. The water is calm, the enormous animal moves gracefully through the ocean, and for a few seconds...
