Imagine a dry desert with endless sand dunes transforming into a lush, green tropical paradise before your eyes. This is the ambitious vision of terraforming the Sahara...
You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it’s possible...
Somewhere in the far reaches of space, a giant hunk of rock is hurtling our way, just biding its time before an extinction-level impact with Earth. Before you run into...
Scroll down for the quiz! There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very quickly. I’ll...
Cities have been named after it, economies have been built on it, wars have been fought over it, your life depends on it. Salt may be the most important, and the most...
Some say, “youth is wasted on the young.” So what if it wasn’t? What if you didn’t have to dread aging? Your eyesight failing? Your joints aching...
volcano is one of the most unforgiving natural phenomenons on Earth. If you were to fall into its magma-filled center, your body would quickly bubble up, and disappear...
Could there be an even better planet for us than Earth? Scientists are searching for a superhabitable world that wouldn’t just rival Earth, but be a place where life...
The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you. Something is emerging from the Mariana...
Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the planets fit into this Goldilocks zone? What...
Millions of years ago, the megalodon shark was one of the scariest creatures to ever lurk in our seas. And even before that, the mosasaurs reigned supreme, terrorizing...
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?
Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and...
Imagine a white picket fence around a white house, with a white driveway and a white car. And it’s not just your house that’s white. It’s also the road...
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...
You’re lost in the jungle without any other humans around. You need to find a new family. Or your new family could find you. What would it be like to be raised by...
What if instead of shining brightly for another 5 billion years, the only star in our Solar System turned into a dark and cold remnant? A black dwarf. How long...
Humans have a knack for changing the environment. Often, these projects have effects we didn’t plan for. Sometimes, it’s disastrous. And other times, it gives us energy...
The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free. And when all of the ice is gone, the world won’t be the same. But what if I told you there was a way to prevent...
Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now...
