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      Body

      What If You Jumped Into a Pool of Hand Sanitizer?

      April 14, 2020
      Earth

      What If Earth Went Rogue?

      May 27, 2021
      Earth

      What If We Never Started Hunting Whales?

      November 16, 2018
      Humanity

      What If Everyone Stopped Drinking Coffee?

      January 2, 2020
      Body

      What Happens If You Never Take Your Contacts Out?

      November 24, 2019
      MSN New, Earth

      Scientists Reached the Bottom of the Mariana Trench, and Something Far Stranger Was Waiting Below

      Far beneath the surface of the western Pacific sits one of the most punishing environments this planet has to offer. The Mariana Trench was never meant to welcome...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Rogue Planet Could Be Drifting Straight for Us, and Nothing Would Stop It

      There are billions of planets drifting through the Milky Way with no star to orbit. No sun, no fixed path, nothing holding them anywhere in particular. They were most...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      Imagine If You Spent 100 Years on Mars?

      It’s been 100 Earth years since you settled on Mars. You’ve been through pain, loneliness and a lot of hard work. And now Mars is the new promised land everyone...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Deadliest Venom on Earth Comes From a Creature You’d Never Suspect

      When people think about the world’s most venomous animals, images of deadly snakes, dangerous jellyfish, or poisonous scorpions usually come to mind. The saw...

      MSN New, Earth

      How Bad Would It Get If a Hypercane Formed in the Atlantic Tomorrow?

      A massive asteroid just hit Earth, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to NASA’s new infrared telescope, we were able to detect it and prepare for the...

      MSN New, Earth

      What Venus’s Atmosphere Would Actually Do to Life on Earth

      Imagine stepping outside and seeing a sky covered by thick yellow clouds. The air around you feels heavy, toxic, and impossible to breathe. The ground beneath your feet...

      MSN New, Earth

      Divers Found Perfect Circles on the Seafloor in 1995, It Took 18 Years to Catch the Artist

      Somewhere off the coast of Japan in 1995, divers found something on the seafloor that should not have been there. A perfect circle, roughly two meters across, carved...

      MSN New

      When 50 Million Crabs Invade an Island: The Christmas Island Phenomenon

      Every year on Christmas Island, something almost unbelievable happens as millions of tiny red crabs begin to move across the landscape in one massive, coordinated wave...

      HTS MSN

      Surviving the World’s Most Toxic Desert

      Hot sizzling salt beneath your feet. Sulfuric acid fumes burn your lungs with every breath you take. And if you don’t watch your step, you could fall on molten hot...

      HTS MSN

      Stranded in the Amazon, and the Jungle Has More Than 2.5 Million Species Waiting

      You’ve finally made it! The trip of a lifetime. Wild nature, lush scenery, and exotic animals galore. It’s all good, as long as things go as expected. But in...

      Earth

      What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Donut?

      On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth...

      Health, MSN, MSN New

      The Hidden Risks of Rat Infestations, Including Hantavirus

      They’ll take over your house, contaminate your food, and leave their feces all over the place. And in some cases, they can even expose you to dangerous diseases...

      Earth, MSN New

      Can You Imagine a Megalodon Hiding in the Mariana Trench?

      You’re in the deepest part of our oceans. The Mariana Trench. Suddenly, your sub experiences an earthquake. And when you look outside, you see the terrifying...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Trump and Putin Invaded Europe?

      This war didn’t come out of nowhere. The signs were hiding in plain sight. Trump slams Europe with devastating tariffs, crippling economies across the continent...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Day It Stops Fearing People Is the Day Everything Changes

      Every wild animal keeps a distance from humans. That instinct is the only thing standing between us and most predators on Earth. Now imagine a creature large enough that...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      6 Facts If We Dumped All Earth’s Water on the Sun

      Things are getting hotter and hotter here on Earth, and global warming has everyone panicking. But let us try a wild idea: what if we took every drop of Earth’s water...

      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

      What Would Happen If Mars Orbited Earth?

      Could we move to our new moon one day? Or is this one of those scenarios where everybody dies in the end? “Fly me to Mars..” Ahem, where were we? Right, Mars...

      Cosmos, MSN

      What If the Sun Swallowed Jupiter?

      Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is pulling Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Scientists Found a Planet Whose Ice Stays Frozen at Over 500 Degrees

      Imagine landing on a planet where the surface looks frozen but burns hotter than your oven. Welcome to Gliese 436b, one of the strangest known planets in the universe...

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