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...
By the year 2035, NASA plans to send humans to Mars. But it would be about a nine-month trip with our current rocket technology. However, in the not-so-distant future...
The miracle of life. A 40-week process where you developed from a single cell to fully formed human baby. All within in your mother’s womb. Now, imagine you were...
Have you ever wondered what dinosaurs were afraid of? What creature, in the Cretaceous period, made taking a drink of water a dangerous gamble? I’m talking about...
Black holes are one of the most devastating objects in space, sucking up everything around them. But there’s another space phenomenon that’s just as...
What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But...
In 1044, the Chinese invented gunpowder. And we’ve been getting into trouble ever since. Fireworks are cool, nuclear warfare is not. And nuking the moon...
We sure love our roads. We love them so much that we seem determined to pave the entire world. But maybe roads can become the future of renewable energy. That’s right...
Imagine a world where humanity has not only gained the ability to travel and to populate space but has progressed even further than that. Humanity can now control and...
Scroll to the bottom to watch the video. They’re not the biggest falls on Earth, not by a long shot. But they’re certainly among the most famous. Niagara...
Ever wonder what it would feel like to step into an oven? Welcome to Death Valley, California. It’s so hot you can barely breathe. This national park that stretches...
It’s about to get Old Testament here. What if the creepiest, crawliest, most catastrophic member of the Plagues of Egypt made an unexpected housecall? And decided your...
No more vast, barren deserts. Because we are going to turn them all into lush, green farmlands. How would we go about bringing new life to hot deserts? How much would...
When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a...
Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge promises about colonizing the red planet...
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...
Get your bone flute and gather around the fire. Today on What If, we’re taking you back to the time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. That’s right...
Not too far from Earth is a giant space rock that has silently played host to just twelve people in its entire history. What would happen if we put our cosmic satellite...
[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...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] If you could travel faster than the speed of light, where would you go? Mars? The nearest star system Alpha Centauri...
