The modern circus was never the same after 1812; what had previously been concerned with horse tricks, musicians, and clowns started to include wild animals and began...
Danger does not always announce itself. In many parts of the world, an ordinary trip through a city can become dangerous simply because someone happens to be in the...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Even if you were not 1.5 billion kilometers (900 million miles) from Earth, building a new community would still be a major challenge...
Some places in the Solar System have some pretty expensive rain falling on their surface. Let’s see if we could bring those home. What would it take for Earth to...
Animal testing remains one of the most controversial parts of modern science. Every year, millions of animals are used in experiments designed to develop medicines, test...
Uh-oh. Looks like somebody left the gas running on Jupiter. Don’t do anything stupid, like lighting a humongous match. What would a match need to be made of to ignite...
Imagine waking up to headlines announcing that one of the largest mammals to ever roam the Americas has returned. After disappearing thousands of years ago, the giant...
Imagine waking up tomorrow to complete silence. No buzzing bees, no chirping crickets, no butterflies drifting through gardens, and not even a single ant crawling across...
The Earth might not be here forever. A huge solar flare, an asteroid impact, or a local gamma-ray burst – anything could wipe us out for good. If we’re...
Quetzalcoatlus lived around 72 to 66 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when it blocked out the sun with its 12 m (40 ft) wingspan. When it landed on...
If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Technically speaking, this marine reptile was not a dinosaur, even though it lived alongside many of them in ancient oceans. Styxosaurus...
A series of powerful earthquakes recently struck Venezuela, including two major tremors measuring around magnitude 7.2 and 7.5. The back to back quakes hit west of...
In a galaxy far away, gravity didn’t quite work the way it does on Earth. And the speed at which everything moved was really weird too. Maybe, some places in our...
A quiet walk through untouched wilderness can turn terrifying in an instant if you cross paths with one of the most powerful predators on land. Bears rank among the...
There are over one million volcanoes on our ocean floor. And all of them suddenly started spewing out red-hot molten rock. The ocean is filling with lava. And nothing...
What if instead of shining brightly for another 5 billion years, the only star in our Solar System turned into a dark and cold remnant? A black dwarf. How long...
Being swallowed by a whale sounds like something straight out of a fairy tale. Stories like Jonah and the Whale have been around for centuries, and every so often a...
World War II changed the course of human history, shaping the borders, governments and technologies that define the modern world. But what if the outcome had been...
Imagine waking up one day to find that every human on Earth has vanished. No warning. No survivors. Cities stand exactly as they were the day before, but every street is...
