The year is 2126. Looking out your window, you watch Earth hanging silently above the lunar horizon. What was once a breathtaking image seen only by astronauts has...
Tyrannosaurus Rex. King of the tyrant lizards. It’s 6 meters tall (20 feet), 12 meters (40 feet) long, and it weighs upward of seven tons. You can hide from it...
Imagine if Earth suddenly lost an entire continent. North America wouldn’t just vanish off the face of the planet, of course. Instead, it would sink into the...
About 50,000 years ago, we shared this planet with different hominids called the Neanderthals. Their species wasn’t human, but they weren’t far from it...
First off, we’re going to have to be a Type 1 civilization. Then collectively, we can use all the energy available on our planet. It also gets rid of the monotony of...
Mountains. They’re born, they grow, they age and erode. And after a very, very long life, they turn to dust. What if all mountains collapsed at once? What are the...
You start your day hearing wild news. Jupiter has just swallowed Saturn. And it doesn’t stop there. Jupiter is on its way to swallow every planet in the Solar...
Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now...
Humanity has spent the last 100 years increasing our dependence on electricity. Look around…. your computer, air conditioner, microwave, fridge, elevator, traffic...
On June 10, 1990, British Airways Flight 5390 was preparing for a routine journey from the United Kingdom to Spain after a short delay. On board were Captain Timothy...
Car crashes are a common occurrence. Over 1.35 million people worldwide die in car accidents every year, and crashes are the 8th leading cause of death around the world...
The numbers are hard to ignore. According to United Nations assessments, the world has roughly a decade to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if it hopes to...
We can build really big things in space. Okay, not that big – yet. But we’ve packed the Earth’s lower orbit with about 5,000 satellites – some...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Technically speaking, this marine reptile was not a dinosaur, even though it lived alongside many of them in ancient oceans. Styxosaurus...
A black hole is often described as a cosmic point of no return, a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that...
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...
Imagine looking into the mirror and seeing a completely different version of humanity, one with huge eyes, advanced technology wired into the brain, and even the ability...
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars...
In five billion years, we’re gonna have a hefty problem on our hands. Well, only if we’re still living on Earth at this point. Our Sun will be on the brink...
Hang on because we’re about to screech to a halt. That’s right. The Earth is going to stop spinning for five seconds. How much damage would this sudden stoppage cause...
