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...
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...
On February 24th, 2010, SeaWorld Orlando hosted another “Dine with Shamu” performance, where guests ate lunch while watching trainers interact closely with orcas. Among...
Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, don’t you...
What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a plan to power the Earth for centuries. Black...
Imagine waking up one morning and deciding you never want to work again. No alarm clock, no stressful meetings, and no boss telling you what to do. Sounds pretty great...
Ask “What Can You Tell Me About It” and They Hide the Truth, Ask This Instead and They Confess
Two people are selling the same broken phone. A buyer asks the first one, “So what can you tell me about it?” The seller says it works great. The buyer asks...
For as long as humans have looked toward the stars, one question has remained unanswered: how did life begin? Scientists have searched for clues in Earth’s ancient...
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...
In September 2019, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary added 530 new words to its collection, which now totals roughly 470,000 words. Needless to say, language, all languages...
2020 has been one of the worst years in human history. It’s been strange, confusing, and often terrifying. But what if when the clock strikes midnight on December...
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 that are...
Could you survive falling down an elevator shaft? How about being trapped inside an elevator for days? Or being inside a falling elevator? These are just some of the...
This blue, marble-like planet looks just like Earth. But only five seconds on this hostile death-orb would kill you. Welcome to HD 189733b. This planet is enormous. Even...
On Christmas Day in 2007, while families around the world were celebrating the holidays, a terrifying event was unfolding at the San Francisco Zoo. Around 5 p.m., 17...
When people think about dangerous bites, they usually imagine animals with sharp teeth and powerful jaws. A dog, a cat, or a wild predator seems like the obvious threat...
Everybody loves a good sleep, but we probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much if we had no control over when it happened. Imagine falling into a deep sleep during a...
Imagine being stuck in traffic halfway across a huge bridge when the entire structure suddenly begins to move. At first, you might assume it is simply the vibration...
It started like any other expedition into the remote wetlands of South America. Thick jungle, slow moving rivers, and the kind of silence that makes every sound feel...
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...

