Our planet has survived the billions of years of catastrophic events that made it the world we live on now. But one day, there will be an event so disastrous that it...
Our solid core has given us life as we know it. But what if Earth was hollow?
Most people believe that once a ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean, anyone trapped inside has only minutes to live. But one man survived for nearly three days beneath...
Could you survive falling down an elevator shaft? How about being trapped inside an elevator for days? Or being inside a falling elevator? These are just some of the...
Imagine a dry desert with endless sand dunes transforming into a lush, green tropical paradise before your eyes. This is the ambitious vision of terraforming the Sahara...
Across the globe, there are islands that look beautiful from a distance but hide extreme dangers, from deadly wildlife to natural disasters and strict access...
Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, there’s a scorching ball of iron surrounded by an ocean of boiling hot liquid metal – the Earth’s core...
The Big Rip, the ultimate fate of our Universe. It will be a cosmic event that will tear apart galaxies, one by one. Stars, planets, you, everything will be eviscerated...
The Bermuda Triangle has long been one of the most famous “mystery zones” on Earth. Over the years, it has been linked to disappearing ships, strange weather patterns...
Dane Kieser was 16 years old, a high school rugby player from Pretoria, South Africa. Strong, athletic and familiar with lions, he had spent time around animals at the...
Would you drink water that was extracted from the Moon? With NASA’s recent discovery of water on the Moon’s surface, it might become a more common practice...
Welcome to social isolation, a new lifestyle where grabbing a drink with friends consists of getting drunk in front of your computer. Where hitting the club means...
Pets can be many things to people. To some, pets are life-changing family members. To others, they’re noisy troublemakers. And pets are the stars of hilarious...
Before sunrise, deep in remote terrain, a single worker steps out of a tent into cold, uncertain weather. The job ahead is simple in theory but brutal in practice...
Lava reaches 1,200 degrees Celsius. Liquid nitrogen sits at minus 210. Put those two numbers side by side and the experiment writes itself. What happens if you dump one...
In 1918, the world was at war. While soldiers fought each other on the frontlines, an even greater threat emerged, the Spanish flu. Between 50 to 100 million people died...
What if all the galaxies, stars, planets – everything – stopped moving away from everything else? Would the Universe as it is just freeze? Or would it...
Could there be an even better planet for us than Earth? Scientists are searching for a superhabitable world that wouldn’t just rival Earth, but be a place where life...
If you had a device designed to freeze time for everything but you, life wouldn’t be anything like what you’d expect. You wouldn’t catch up on sleep...
Every year, around 140 million babies are born worldwide. And if we continue at this pace, 50 years from now the global population will reach 10.5 billion people. The...
