Imagine being told that your new prison cell sits on an isolated island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The water around you is cold, the currents are strong, and...
Buckle your seatbelts. We’re about to take a ride on the cosmic superhighway. What exactly are these celestial autobahns? How would they help us explore the furthest...
If you could step into a time machine and travel 1,000 years into the future, would you even recognize humanity? Would we still look like we do today, or would...
Titan. The most majestic of Saturn’s many moons. And the most promising for life too. It’s got a beautiful view and liquid lakes on its surface. The only...
The digital age is well and truly upon us. And in recent years, there’s no development more talked about than Bitcoin. Forget about dollars, pounds, and euros...
In the morning some of us need that extra boost to get our day going. We’re talking about coffee of course. But before we get brewing. What does coffee do to your...
It starts with a simple cough, and before you know it, millions of people are infected. And it won’t stop there. It could keep growing and growing until billions...
Ah, the planet Earth, our beautiful home. We’d like to believe it will be around forever, but what if it isn’t? Aliens, comets, weapons of mass destruction, black...
Tentacles meters long that can tangle around you and stingers ready to inject deadly venom. They can be almost entirely seethrough, making them the perfect killer in...
Few inventors in history have become as famous as Thomas Edison. With more than 1,000 patents attached to his name, Edison helped shape the modern world through...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon based molecules in ancient dried up river deposits on Mars, adding to growing evidence that the planet once had the...
Every day, billions of people browse websites, send emails, stream videos, and shop online without giving much thought to what keeps the Internet running. It feels like...
In the past 200 years, the average life expectancy on Earth has more than doubled. But despite being able to live longer, we still haven’t figured out a way to...
The sky appears darker. The temperature is starting to drop. Our rivers are freezing, crops are covered in snow! People could go hungry. Is it just me, or is the Sun...
40 km (25 mi) off the coast of Brazil lies an island so dangerous it’s illegal to visit. But rules don’t apply to you. You’re a thrill-seeking...
What would really happen if you went into space without a suit?
About 65 million years ago, a mass extinction event occurred, wiping out more than 75% of all species on Earth. There have only been 5 mass extinctions in our...
What if all the Earth’s land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the...
Life on Mars would be nothing like life on Earth. The first settlers would probably spend most of their time inside sealed habitats protected from radiation and the...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Thousands of light-years from Earth, there could be another planet hospitable to life. Kepler 69c. And you’re about to travel to...

