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      Body

      What If You Never Took Off Your Face Mask?

      December 9, 2020
      Science

      What If You Had X-Ray Vision?

      June 13, 2019
      Body

      What Happens If You Get Too Much Radiation Exposure?

      September 2, 2025
      Body

      What If You Had Three Eyes?

      March 21, 2022
      Body

      What If You Fell Into a Pool of Stingrays?

      June 14, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If the Great Attractor Swallowed Our Galaxy?

      These balls represent one of the strangest phenomena currently taking place in our Universe. Each ball symbolizes one of 100,000 galaxies — including our own...

      Cosmos, MSN New, Science

      Artemis II Brings Us Closer but Can the Moon Ever Be Habitable

      How long would it take us to turn our natural satellite into a habitable place? How would this Earth-like Moon look? Would this even be possible? Wondering why we chose...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Alien Microbes Could Reach Earth, and They Would Find No Natural Predators

      When people think about space threats, they usually imagine asteroid impacts, solar storms, or distant supernova explosions. But some scientists warn that the most...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      The True Scale of Nuclear Weapons

      Nuclear weapons have shaped global politics for decades, but their destructive power is almost impossible to comprehend. From the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If the Moon Orbited Earth Faster?

      Buckle up. We’re going to take the orbit of this rock and kick it into high gear. Behold the Moon breaking its planetary speed limit. How would this event flood...

      MSN New, Earth

      Are Vampire Squids Really Blood-Sucking Monsters?

      It has blood red skin, webbed tentacles, and strange spines that make it look like something out of a nightmare. Meet the vampire squid. At first glance, this deep sea...

      HTS MSN

      How to Stay Safe If You Are Being Followed at Night

      It’s the end of your shift. Like every night, you walk down a quiet street toward the bus station. But then you hear it. Footsteps behind you. You glance back and see...

      MSN New, Humanity

      How Powerful Would a Type VI Civilization Be?

      Human civilization is still in its infancy. According to the Kardashev Scale, a method used to measure a civilization’s technological advancement based on energy...

      They Learned to Survive in the Desert Despite Impossible Conditions
      MSN New

      They Learned to Survive in the Desert Despite Impossible Conditions

      Across the world’s harshest deserts, survival is not just difficult it is a constant battle against extreme heat, freezing nights, and almost complete lack of...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If We Relocated Humanity to Proxima B?

      Proxima b is very promising. It orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri in a system with three stars in it. Proxima Centauri is small. It only has between 7.5%...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Technology That Could Finally Free Humanity From Earth’s Gravity

      Are you tired of cramped city-living? Then anti-gravity might be for you! Do you want to soar effortlessly over traffic jams, while the drivers below you lose their...

      MSN New

      The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Ever Built Just Revealed the Sun Like Never Before

      At first glance, it looks like a pan full of perfectly popped popcorn. But what you’re actually seeing is something far more extraordinary. These incredible images...

      Science

      What If Humans Could Do Photosynthesis?

      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...

      Earth

      What If We Lost The Amazon Rainforest?

      How long would it take for the world’s largest rainforest to burn down? If we don’t do anything to stop it, we’ll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest...

      MSN New, Earth

      You Wake Up 400 Million Years Ago, and the Oceans Are Filled With Monsters

      Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of disaster the planet could throw...

      MSN New, Earth

      What Were Dogs Before They Were “Man’s Best Friend?”

      The origin of “man’s best friend” isn’t entirely clear. Scientists agree that dogs evolved from wolves, but we don’t know exactly how or...

      Technology

      What If We Could Build an Alderson Disk?

      Scroll down to watch the video. The Earth might not remain habitable forever. It could get engulfed by a massive solar flare, or become too hot due to climate change, or...

      HTS MSN

      How to Survive Being Poisoned, According To Science

      Even if you never realize you’ve been exposed to something toxic, your body will usually give warning signs. Symptoms like vomiting, difficulty breathing, sudden...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Gravitational Wave Just Struck Earth, and Here’s What It Did

      1.3 billion years ago, two orbiting massive black holes, circling each other at 250 times a second, collided in a violent, universe-rippling explosion that sent waves of...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      $1.9 Trillion Keeps the World’s Militaries Running, and Removing Them Would Change Everything

      Militaries around the world are money-eating machines. And they keep getting more expensive. In 2019, the world spent $1.917 trillion on all the different militaries...

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