This is not some harmless hair. It’s volcanic glass and it could turn your life into an itchy, blistering existence. Uh oh. Looks like today’s forecast is volcanic...
It’s January 2027. No warning sirens sound across America or Europe. No emergency alert flashes across your phone. By the time the world realizes how serious things have...
Every year on Christmas Island, something almost unbelievable happens as millions of tiny red crabs begin to move across the landscape in one massive, coordinated wave...
What would you do if you grabbed a tree branch and suddenly realized it was not a branch, but a snake? Now imagine that snake launching itself directly toward you...
Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than Earth’s. Planet Nine, also known by its...
There’s a giant, peanut-shaped object orbiting the Sun, and it’s name is Halley’s comet. Like all comets, it’s a cosmic mashup of frozen ice, gases, and dust...
Humanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what is hiding out there. Entire galaxies, black holes, strange planets, and maybe even alien civilizations...
Liquid nitrogen is a cryogenic liquid. They’re liquefied gases that can only stay liquid at extremely low temperatures. For example, liquid nitrogen boils at...
The First World War began on July 28, 1914, when Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia, triggering a rapid chain reaction across Europe. Within days, the conflict...
After 2,250 medical trials, involving 380,000 patient volunteers, your wishes and your prayers have finally been answered: we found a cure for cancer. What if that were...
Imagine a world where humanity has not only gained the ability to travel and to populate space but has progressed even further than that. Humanity can now control and...
Let’s be realistic, most of us aren’t like Neo from The Matrix. And for that matter, if the unthinkable happens, you might be on your own, or there might be...
Our Moon may seem ordinary, but it quietly keeps Earth stable. It controls the tides, slows our planet’s rotation, and helps maintain the rhythm of life. But what...
A scorching hot never-ending day on one side and a permanent frozen night on the other. This is what our planet would be like if it was tidally locked to the Sun. How...
Electric cars have always seemed like the wave of the future. Countless movies have made us yearn for cars that run on batteries and can be charged from the owner’s home...
What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the picture? Only in the past year, our...
Somewhere in your last grocery bill, your last tax payment, and your last medical expense, there is a hidden charge you never agreed to. It is the cost of cleaning up a...
Imagine an ultimate road trip across the globe. On a highway along the equator. Wait, there is no highway along the equator… yet. So how about we build one? What...
As Earth’s population multiplies each year, we’re quickly running out of resources to feed the planet. Before long, we’re going to need more space to...
Whenever people imagine World War III, the question is always the same: who would win? The United States, Russia, or China are usually seen as the three most powerful...
