This would be the journey of a lifetime, if you don’t mind riding through molten rock and crushing pressure. What would you see along the way? How long...
The world has ended. The sky has fallen. Doomsday has come and gone. So now what? Let’s start rebuilding civilization, of course. How would you begin to come back from...
“Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth” That’s right. It’s...
There are 79 known moons of Jupiter. What if we move Earth into its orbit too? How would jupiter’s super strong gravity affect our lives? What would our...
Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what would it actually be like to live on one of...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Unlike in the movie, you don’t have to say it three times to make it...
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...
Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land...
Contrary to what some people think, the Earth isn’t the center of the Universe. But what if it was? What if those medieval astronomers were right, and everything...
What if the Moon was more than just a lifeless rock? Under that bright light, it could be hiding an alien civilization. When did this alien life begin on the Moon? What...
Black holes are dense and scary. They suck up everything in their way. Their gravity is so strong it bends light and warps time. But what if I told you we might have...
Antimatter is the most potent fuel source known to humanity. And it could be the secret to faster-than-light space travel. But where in the Universe would we find...
Once a revolutionary invention, it's now filling up our oceans and killing thousands of whales, birds, turtles... Just how much plastic do we have around us?
Two billion years ago, Earth was a strange and hostile place. It was an era marked by dramatic climate shifts, dangerous changes in the atmosphere, and the birth of...
Look at the world around you. What do you see? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But mostly, it’s not. Why are we so driven by sex? Has it always been this way...
Take some cosmic dust and gas, add billions and billions of planets and a whole lot of stars to the mix. Spice it all up with a handful of gravity to hold things...
Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it...
Space has lots of different things in it. Planets, nebulas, asteroids, the list goes on. So what would happen if we got rid of a single planet? Specifically, our largest...
What if all the stars disappeared tomorrow, together with all the planets, solar systems and galaxies? What would be left of the Universe if it suddenly collapsed...
Instead of falling apart after a single crash, now we all have cars that are completely indestructible. Would there be fewer fatalities caused by car accidents? What...

