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      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      Earth

      What If Latin America Was a Single Country?

      September 2, 2022
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Built a Colony on Saturn’s Moon Titan?

      4 months ago
      Cosmos

      What If a Black Hole Ate the Sun?

      July 22, 2020
      Earth, Survival

      How To Survive the World’s Deadliest Quicksand Pits

      October 27, 2022
      MSN New, Earth

      Earth Lost Gravity, and Everything on the Planet Started Flying Away

      Gravity, in the literal sense, keeps everyone (and everything) on Earth grounded. It acts as the anchor that prevents objects from floating skyward. For humans...

      MSN New, Science

      He Went on Holiday and Left a Dirty Dish Behind, and It Saved 200 Million Lives

      September 1928. A London laboratory sits empty while its owner takes a summer holiday. When Alexander Fleming finally comes back, his workspace is exactly as messy as he...

      Science

      What If the African Continent Broke Apart?

        You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it’s possible...

      Cosmos

      What If You Had to Find Baby Yoda?

      One task, you have. Find Baby Yoda, you must. The tracking fob, guide you it will. Where, begin your search, would you? It sounds like an easy task. But we...

      MSN New, Health

      What Would Happen If You Spray Tanned Every Day for a Year?

      You’d love to have that healthy, sun-kissed tan all year round. But too much sun and you could get a nasty sunburn or even skin cancer. Spray tanning sounds like a way...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Actually Happen If Halley’s Comet Hit the Moon?

      Halley’s Comet is one of the most famous visitors in our Solar System. It is a massive, peanut shaped object made of ice, dust, and frozen gases, stretching roughly 15...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Every Human Suddenly Became 5 Meters Tall, and Civilization Would Struggle to Survive

      Robert Wadlow holds the record as the tallest human ever confirmed, standing an astonishing 2.72 meters before medical complications tied to his extreme growth ended his...

      HTS MSN

      Kayaking Dad Battles Rabid Beaver to Save Daughter in Terrifying Attack

      Dan Wherley never thought of beavers as dangerous. Slow, harmless, busy building dams somewhere out of the way. That opinion changed in about two seconds, when one leapt...

      Earth

      What If You Went Surfing on a Tsunami?

      There’s something approaching from the distance that you can’t stop. It can completely destroy cities and kill tens of thousands of people. It looks like...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If Canada Joined the United States as the 51st State?

      America’s current President has repeatedly suggested and called for Canada to become the 51st state of America. While the Canadian government has forcefully...

      Cosmos

      What If You Spent 100 Years on Mars?

      It’s been 100 Earth years since you settled on Mars. You’ve been through pain, loneliness and a lot of hard work. And now Mars is the new promised land everyone...

      Earth

      What If We Filled Our Oceans Up With Lava?

      How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Everyone Stopped Working?

      Imagine waking up one morning and deciding you never want to work again. No alarm clock, no stressful meetings, and no boss telling you what to do. Sounds pretty great...

      Cosmos

      What If Earth Orbited the Sun at the Speed of Light?

      Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up...

      MSN New, Humanity

      How Would Humanity Look Today Without the Spanish Flu Pandemic?

      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...

      HTS MSN

      She Rolled Down Her Safari Window for a Photo, Seconds Later a Lion Attacked

      How fast can a lion kill you? In the right circumstances, it can happen frighteningly quickly. Lions can reach speeds of around 50 mph, leap more than 30 feet, and...

      MSN New

      What If Wildlife Is Part of a Global Monitoring System?

      Imagine stepping outside your house and realizing you are never truly alone. A pigeon sits on a telephone wire across the street. A squirrel runs along a fence. A deer...

      HTS MSN

      He Was Taken to Guantanamo, Tortured for Years, and Never Charged With a Crime

      Mohamedou Ould Slahi had never thought that going to the police would result in him spending years in one of the world’s most notorious prisons. When he was in...

      Earth, MSN, MSN New

      Imagine If These 5 Things Were Gone for 5 Seconds

      There are some things you just can’t live without. Like gravity, oxygen, the Sun’s warmth. And we’re about to take those vital things away from you...

      MSN New

      Discover What Would Happen If a Megalodon Attacked a Human

      The most deadly predator of the sea spent its days conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but imagine...

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