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      What If All of the Volcanoes on Earth Erupted at Once?

      May 28, 2018
      Body

      What If You Hibernated for 100 Years?

      January 11, 2023
      Humanity

      What If the Pterodactyl Was Still Alive?

      January 9, 2020
      Body

      What If You Never Took Off Your Face Mask?

      December 9, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If the Moon Never Formed?

      January 26, 2020
      MSN New

      Scientists Discovered a Bacteria That Eats Plastic

      For decades, plastic has been building up across the planet. It fills landfills, floats through oceans, and has even been discovered in drinking water, food, and the air...

      Humanity

      What If We Settled on the Moon?

      Imagine living on the Moon. You’d have the best view of Earth, enjoy bouncing around in zero gravity and living your life as an astronaut explorer. Ah...

      MSN New

      Humanity Just Learned Earth Has 10 Years Left, and Panic Sets In

      The Earth is a dying rock and time is running out. You only have 10 years to plan your escape. How could we evacuate as many people as possible? What resources would we...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What Would You Do If You Were the Only Man on Earth?

      There are 3.8 billion women on Earth. There were 3.9 billion men. But now, it’s just you…and your phone won’t stop ringing. Is this a fantasy? A...

      Science

      What If the Universe Ended Tomorrow?

        What if all the stars disappeared tomorrow, together with all the planets, solar systems and galaxies? What would be left of the Universe if it suddenly collapsed...

      MSN New, Humanity

      A 6.5 km Wide Space Cylinder Could Become Humanity’s New Home

      Swipe Down for Video Story Tired of living on an overpopulated Earth? Why not move to the O’Neill Cylinder? An artificial state-of-the-art space habitat where we...

      HTS MSN

      What Happens When Hitchhiking Goes Wrong and How to Survive

      A lot of horror movies start like this. An empty road and someone like you standing alone with their thumb up. After hours of waiting, a stranger pulls up at the side of...

      MSN New

      What If Earth Were Located Near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center?

      See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far...

      HTS MSN

      How to Survive a Shark Attack, According to Science

      A shadow appears beneath the surface. At first it is distant, almost harmless. Then it grows closer. A triangular fin cuts through the water, moving steadily in your...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Universe Stopped Expanding, and the End of Everything Would Begin

      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...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What if Humans Tried to Land on Kepler 452 b?

      Humanity has long imagined leaving Earth and establishing a second home among the stars. The idea of a backup planet is no longer confined to science fiction, especially...

      MSN New

      Top 10 Scariest Extinct Creatures That Roamed the Earth

      Long before humans built cities, paved roads, and established civilization, planet Earth was ruled by creatures straight out of a nightmare. From depths of prehistoric...

      HTS MSN

      The First Sign of Hypothermia Most People Miss

      You are hiking through a beautiful winter landscape when the weather suddenly changes. A snowstorm moves in, visibility disappears, and you realize you are no longer...

      Earth

      What If Earth’s Atmosphere Ignited Tomorrow?

      A massive earthquake knocks you off your feet. There’s a blinding flash of white, and then you see a tsunami of lava rising on the horizon. A nuclear reaction has...

      HTS MSN

      One Tiny Crack in a Wheel Sent This 200 km/h Train Into a Bridge, Killing 101

      The crack was inside a single wheel, invisible from the outside, and inspectors kept missing it. It had been growing quietly for a long time before anyone paid a price...

      MSN New, Earth

      Reactor Four Is 40,000 Times More Radioactive, and Five Minutes Is All You Get

      Bleak landscapes, soldiers in gas masks and mutant creatures running through the Red Forest. Basically, a perfect place for you to spend a month. Welcome to Chernobyl...

      HTS MSN

      They Were Locked Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Prison, Then Two Gangs Went to War

      New Bilibid Prison is supposed to be one of the most secure prisons in the Philippines. But before dawn on October 9, 2020, violence erupted inside its maximum security...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      SpaceX Hit the Moon, But What Would Happen If We Nuked It?

      When a piece of space debris connected to a SpaceX mission crashed into the Moon, it created a wave of curiosity around what happens when humans leave their mark on the...

      Science

      What If Earth’s Gravity Was Stronger?

        You have a weight problem. And it’s not just you, it’s everyone! That’s just how life is on Earth 2.0. Double the density, double the gravity...

      MSN New

      Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Inventions That Changed the World

      Eye Makeup The people of Ancient Egypt were already using eye makeup as early as 4000 B.C., making them one of the first civilizations to develop cosmetics. Both men and...

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