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      Body

      What If You Ate an Alien?

      February 22, 2021
      Body

      What If You Only Drank Coca-Cola?

      September 4, 2020
      Earth

      What If You Fell Into Lake Vostok?

      April 26, 2021
      Humanity

      What If Humans Suddenly Became as Big As Dinosaurs?

      September 11, 2025
      Earth

      What If Terror Crocs Were Still Alive?

      October 15, 2020
      MSN New, Humanity

      What if Humans Could Do Photosynthesis?

      Imagine being able to sunbathe all day long. But instead of getting a nice tan to show off… You turn green! And get lazier. Don’t worry. It’s not the...

      MSN New, Humanity

      We Could Build a Civilization Among the Stars, but the Universe Would Never Feel Small

      What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet...

      MSN New

      Should You Be Scared of an Alien Invasion?

      For generations, the idea of an alien invasion has captured our imagination. Movies, television shows, books, and conspiracy theories have painted a picture of advanced...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      A.I Predicts Why the U.S. Could Leave NATO in 2027

      What if a single decision shattered the world’s most powerful alliance overnight? Built on real-world data and analyzed through AI, this explores a worst-case chain...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Machines Have Spoken. This Is When the First Human Steps on Mars

      Ask a human when we will walk on Mars and you get a dream. Ask the data and you get a date. Feed everything we know into the analysis, current space agency roadmaps...

      MSN New, Earth

      What Would Happen if the Entire Planet Functioned as One City?

      Welcome to Earth City. Yeah, you heard that right. You’re not going on a globetrotting tour to see all the planet’s major cities. You’re already there. Today, the entire...

      Cosmos, Science

      What If The Sun Was Smaller Than The Earth?

        How big is the Sun compared to the Earth? Imagine you were able to shrink the Sun to the size of a basketball. At that point, the Earth would be reduced to the...

      MSN New, Health

      Stanford Scientists Have Found a Way to Regrow Cartilage and Reverse Arthritis

      Millions of people worldwide live with arthritis, a condition that causes joint pain, stiffness, and reduced mobility. For decades, treatments have focused primarily on...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What Would Happen If Humans Could Communicate Without Saying a Single Word?

      Maybe you’ve always wanted to express your feelings without saying a word? What if you could read someone’s mind, and they could read yours? Would there be...

      Science

      What If the Earth Collided With Another Planet?

      About 50 billion rogue planets are roaming the Milky Way with no host star to hold on to, some of them three times bigger than the Earth. They don’t give off any...

      HTS MSN

      The Blue Flash Was the First Warning, and Within Days His Body Began Losing the Ability to Heal

      The accident began with a flash of blue light. For Hisashi Ouchi, a 35 year old worker at a nuclear fuel processing facility in Tokaimura, Japan, that brief glow marked...

      Cosmos

      What If Every Black Hole Suddenly Exploded?

      Welcome to the void.Black holes remain the most mysterious and destructive force in our Universe. And when one explodes, the devastation permanently changes the...

      Earth Could Face a Planetary Rival, and Their Orbits Might Not Survive
      MSN New, Humanity

      Earth Could Face a Planetary Rival, and Their Orbits Might Not Survive

      In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits a Sun like star and sits in what scientists...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      What If Aliens Were the Ones Who Brought Life to Earth?

      Where did life on Earth come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest and most fascinating questions. For centuries, people have searched for answers in religion...

      MSN New, Humanity

      We Detected a Mysterious Signal From Proxima b, and It Could Be an Alien Message

      Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions...

      MSN New, Earth

      What Earth Would Actually Look Like With Two Suns in the Sky

      There are sunsets on other planets even more spectacular than the ones on Earth. What if we could see not just one, but two suns falling below the Earth’s horizon...

      MSN New

      The Prehistoric Fish That Somehow Still Swims Our Rivers

      With razor sharp teeth, armor like scales, and a body that can grow longer than a person is tall, the alligator gar looks like a creature that escaped from the age of...

      HTS MSN

      70 Tons Came Crashing Down at a Dance Party, and 114 People Never Made It Out

      In the summer of 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City was one of the most exciting places in the city. Its massive lobby, elegant design, and famous suspended...

      MSN New, Health

      World Health Day: What If All of the Bacteria Became Antibiotic Resistant?

      The Centers for Disease Control claims that 1 in 3 antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary. Unnecessary antibiotics cause the body to build up a resistance to those...

      Earth

      What If The Empire State Building Was Swallowed by a Sinkhole?

      The ground around the Empire State Building appears to be sinking. This historic landmark is about to get lost in a giant pit. And you will be coming down with it. If a...

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