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...
People have always believed all kinds of very strange things about the world. In the absence of modern science and medicine, ideas which now seem entirely bizarre could...
Martians might really exist… In the future. But instead of the aliens of sci-fi movies, martians would be humans born and raised on Mars. Why would your skin be...
Polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes. Anything that has multiple faces joined at their edges can be a polyhedron. Picture Earth as a six-sided cube. Or as a...
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...
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NASA’s Moon City Isn’t Science Fiction Anymore. Here’s What Living There Would Cost You
Everything you take for granted has a price on the Moon. Air is manufactured. Water is mined and recycled endlessly. Warmth is engineered. Even a walk outside requires...
The digital age is well and truly upon us. And in recent years, there’s no development more talked about than Bitcoin. Forget about dollars, pounds, and euros...
When people imagine life on other planets, they often picture creatures unlike anything found on Earth. Perhaps they have blue blood, multiple brains, shape shifting...
When most people imagine a sloth, they picture a slow, harmless animal hanging upside down in a tree. They are famous for moving at a painfully slow pace, spending most...
December is a very special month in many countries around the world. No, not because of Christmas. Because it’s baby-making month. Studies show December may have the...
Florida is well known for its sunny beaches, theme parks, its nightlife, and the warm weather. Yet beneath the travel brochures lies a state in which hurricanes...
How many sea animals would face extinction? Could the corals rebuild themselves from scratch? How would this massive die-off affect humanity? Corals are not rocks. They...
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...
This is not some harmless hair. It’s volcanic glass and it could turn your life into an itchy, blistering existence. Uh oh. Looks like today’s forecast is volcanic...
The coils tighten, and somewhere inside all that muscle, the snake is listening. It is not waiting for you to stop struggling. It is not waiting for you to stop...
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for more than a month. So, what if it just NEVER reopens? Most people think they know what that looks like. Higher gas prices. You...
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The Blue Flash Was the First Warning, and Within Days His Body Began Losing the Ability to Heal
The accident began with a flash of blue light. For Hisashi Ouchi, a 35 year old worker at a nuclear fuel processing facility in Tokaimura, Japan, that brief glow marked...
Sixty five million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth and ended the age of the dinosaurs. But what if that never happened? What if dinosaurs had continued...
In five billion years, we’re gonna have a hefty problem on our hands. Well, only if we’re still living on Earth at this point. Our Sun will be on the brink...
Earth is perfectly balanced in space. It travels around the Sun on an elliptical path that gives us seasons without getting too close to our star. The Sun is 330,000...
