The world has ended. The sky has fallen. Doomsday has come and gone. So now what? Let’s start rebuilding civilization, of course. How would you begin to come back from...
Imagine traveling at the speed of an airplane, but on ground level, and in a giant tube. That’s the idea behind the Hyperloop, a network of incredibly fast...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] 55% of the world’s population live in cities. By 2050, that’ll be two thirds of the world’s...
Every morning or every night. Before going out. Definitely after the big game. For most people, showering is routine. But for some, it’s religion. But if lots of...
13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe emerged from one single point in space. This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the...
As the nukes dropped on every major city around the globe, everyone sought shelter, but there was nowhere to hide. In an instant, civilization as we knew it was...
The Universe is a mind-boggling place. Actually, I’m not even sure I can call it a place. NASA says the Universe is everything, but what they really mean is that it...
Once a revolutionary invention, it's now filling up our oceans and killing thousands of whales, birds, turtles... Just how much plastic do we have around us?
In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the planets and our Sun don’t make noise. What would...
What if you had the power to control things without touching them? What if you could use your mind for anything from bending spoons to lifting cars, and even stopping...
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...
Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it’s something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into...
What if we found the way to drain all the Earth’s oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? How long would it take? Years...
Some 5 billion years from now, the Sun will expand and become a red giant. And the Earth might be just in the way… If humans were still around then, would we leave...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] What if Jupiter gained just a little bit more mass during its formation period, and then ignited to become a star...
410 kilometers (254 miles) above the Earth. That’s where the International Space Station floats. What if you happened to be all the way up here but suddenly fell...
Our lungs might be fine in that short a time frame, but the rest of the planet? Not so much.
But how would a second moon affect the ocean tides? Would months on Earth become longer or shorter? And would these two satellites inevitably collide to cause a...
There’s something approaching from the distance that you can’t stop. It can completely destroy cities and kill tens of thousands of people. It looks like...
What if I told you Latin America could have hosted one of the world’s greatest superpowers? Capable of changing the course of history in ways that only players like the...
