Interstellar objects occasionally enter our Solar System, providing insight into the composition and dynamics of distant regions of the galaxy. Among these objects, the...
You found all the best sales and now you are ready to head home. Everything feels normal as you step onto the escalator. Then something changes. A loud mechanical snap...
You’ve done this more than a dozen times. The tallest mountain in the world is your workplace, and you know it like the palm of your hand. Unfortunately, your companions...
Today on What If, we’re taking Jupiter’s deadly gases and unleashing them on Earth. Where could you be safe from these toxic winds? How would you breathe...
With so many varieties in our skin tones, hair colors, and features, the human race is a marvel of evolution. But what if we all decided to preserve our family traits...
There was an amusement park unlike any other. A place where visitors came looking for excitement and left with bruises, broken bones, or sometimes something far worse...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over – and it...
With razor sharp teeth, armor like scales, and a body that can grow longer than a person is tall, the alligator gar looks like a creature that escaped from the age of...
An invasion of the United States by China sounds like the plot of a blockbuster movie. The United States has not experienced a foreign invasion of its mainland in modern...
How cool would it be to see a real life T-Rex? If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth.
For more than 200 years, one of the world’s most famous maps showed something that was completely wrong. It placed California not as part of the North American...
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...
Imagine walking home through a city at night when a sudden flash appears in the sky. Seconds later, your phone shuts off. Traffic lights go dark, cars stop moving, and...
As our biggest planet, Jupiter’s immense presence helps to hold our solar system together. Its massive size and gravitational pull give it a dense atmosphere, a...
Picture a food so despised that serving it too often was considered cruel. A food shoveled onto the plates of prisoners and servants because nobody else would touch it...
Imagine being able to sunbathe all day long. But instead of getting a nice tan to show off… You turn green! And get lazier. Don’t worry. It’s not the...
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...
How about we rip the United States and Mexico apart from each other, geographically speaking? It would open up new trade routes that would make a ton of money for both...
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The impact was so devastating that it wiped out the...
Some of Earth’s largest predators can swallow prey whole. Nile crocodiles have been known to consume gazelles, turtles, and even young lions. Giant anacondas can...
