In the 1930s, Dr. Robert McCance of Cambridge University’s Department of Experimental Medicine convinced four people to give up salt completely for ten days. He...
From a bad hair day to a tragic natural disaster, wind can be extremely disruptive. Wind can be a formidable foe. But what if this powerful force just didn’t exist...
Located on the border of Ontario, Canada, and New York State, this amazing waterfall system is comprised of three different waterfalls with a combined width of 1,204 m...
For billions of years, the Sun’s gravitational has kept Earth’s orbit on a steady and reliable path. But this rogue star has other plans for our planet. This...
We’ve thrown a lot of disasters at Earth over the years: from asteroids and aliens, to the Sun’s death. But hey, the Universe is a dangerous place, and we’re not...
The thought of being swallowed by a whale sounds like something from an ancient legend rather than a real possibility. Tales of people disappearing into enormous sea...
When people think about the first living creature to travel into space, most imagine a human astronaut like Yuri Gagarin or perhaps a chimpanzee. But the true pioneer...
If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something...
Greetings, future moonling. That’s right. You are among the first generation of children born on the Moon. How would your birth compare to every previous human’s...
You might be wondering how I keep ending up in these situations. Well, let me roll it back a bit. Triton, Neptune’s gargantuan moon, is one of the strangest objects in...
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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...
The last time the world witnessed a total solar eclipse was in 2017, and its presence delighted enthusiastic sky watchers. But what if, instead of a rare phenomena, a...
Every 75 years, a ball of fire streaks across the sky. But that’s no fireball. It’s Halley’s Comet. And you’re about to hitch a ride on it. Get...
In some of the wealthiest corners of the world, the very rich are putting their money towards building underground bunkers to survive the apocalypse. These subterranean...
Physicists love asking questions that should never have answers. Questions like this one: what exactly happens to Earth if a black hole comes our way? They ran the...
The ocean is one of the least explored places on Earth, yet it is home to some of the most incredible life forms ever discovered. From deep sea predators to massive...
Imagine traveling at the speed of an airplane, but on ground level, and in a giant tube. That’s the idea behind the Hyperloop, a network of incredibly fast...
It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living rooms as Apollo 11’s Eagle lander...
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...
Would you take your next vacation to this slimy beach? Well, what if most of our beaches were starting to look like this, because our oceans were quickly being taken...
