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      Cosmos

      What If You Lived on Uranus?

      February 21, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?

      March 31, 2022
      Earth

      What If We Poured Concrete Into a Volcano?

      September 22, 2021
      Earth

      What If Earth’s Atmosphere Ignited Tomorrow?

      December 14, 2021
      Body

      What If You Never Took Off Your Face Mask?

      December 9, 2020
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If Humans Tried to Land on Kepler 22b?

      Swipe Down for Full Video Story Six hundred and thirty five light years from Earth lies a world that sounds almost too good to be true, a planet potentially covered by a...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      18 Breathtaking Sunsets in the Universe

      The Universe is packed with worlds where sunsets don’t just fade into night, they bend the rules of physics. From double sunsets to glowing ice and strobing pulsars...

      MSN New

      The Ultimate Mimic in the Animal Kingdom

      In the dense forests of Australia lives one of the most extraordinary sound imitators in the animal kingdom, a bird capable of copying almost any noise it hears with...

      Earth, MSN New

      What Would Happen IF Antarctica’s Dormant Volcanoes Woke Up?

      Deep beneath the thick layer of million-year-old ice, something is lurking quietly, waiting to rip through the rigid ice sheets. This enormous icy wasteland is sitting...

      HTS MSN

      He Reached Through a Lion Enclosure to Pet a Lioness, Seconds Later Three Lions Attacked Him

      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...

      Earth

      What If You Fell Into Niagara Falls?

      Scroll to the bottom to watch the video.  They’re not the biggest falls on Earth, not by a long shot. But they’re certainly among the most famous. Niagara...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If a Tornado Hit a Supervolcano Like Yellowstone?

      Imagine a tornado spinning over an erupting supervolcano. The result would be catastrophic beyond comprehension. While such a collision is incredibly unlikely, exploring...

      HTS MSN

      1816 The Year Without Summer – The Truth Behind What Happened

      In North America we love our summers. We are basically trained to love them. From an early age we are taught that our calendar breaks up into school, and summer holidays...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What NASA’s Plans for a City on the Moon Would Actually Look Like

      The year is 2126. Looking out your window, you watch Earth hanging silently above the lunar horizon. What was once a breathtaking image seen only by astronauts has...

      HTS MSN

      The Deadliest Bridges in the World You Wouldn’t Want to Cross

      No matter how experienced a driver you think you are, whether it’s nearly blinding fog or strong winds pushing your car off unfinished roads, some bridges are...

      Cosmos

      What If Mars Was Half Land and Half Water?

      Mars didn’t always look like this. It may have once been covered in oceans. But what if we brought all the Martian water back and transformed the red planet into...

      Earth, MSN New

      Terrifying Creatures and Survival Secrets of Prehistoric Australia

      Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land...

      Earth

      What If the Oceans Were Made of Gasoline?

      Are you tired of high gas prices? If only you had an ocean of gasoline. Well, now you do! In this episode, we’ll fill all our oceans with gasoline instead of...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What Will Earth Look Like 500 Years into the Future?

      The pace of modern life feels overwhelming. With artificial intelligence advancing by the day and environmental shifts altering our landscapes, we often wonder what life...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If We Ended Animal Testing?

      Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy...

      MSN New, Science

      Scientists May Be About to Unlock the Limitless Energy Hidden in Empty Space

      For centuries, humanity has searched for new ways to produce more energy. We have used fire, coal, oil, nuclear power, wind, and sunlight to fuel our progress. Every...

      MSN New, Humanity

      You Reached Space on a Jetpack, but There Was One Huge Problem

      Jetpacks have come a long way from the clunky machines once seen in science fiction. One day, they might even become practical enough for short trips. But imagine taking...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Universe Started With Almost Nothing, and Somehow It Created Stars, Planets, and Life

      Take a look around wherever you’re sitting. Your phone, the walls, the air, your own body. None of the material in any of it existed when the Universe began...

      MSN New, Humanity

      AI Just Replaced Every Teacher on Earth, and Here’s What Classrooms Became

      Imagine walking into a classroom where there is no teacher standing at the front of the room. Instead, every student is guided by an artificial intelligence system that...

      MSN New

      Conflicts That Could Set the World on Fire

      Could World War III really happen before 2030? Old rivalries and power moves are pushing nations to the edge. Let’s break down five conflicts that could ignite the next...

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