Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally. You know how you were taught that a vacuum is nothing but empty space? That...
Imagine striking a match and having everything around you catch on fire, even if you were standing in a wet forest. And while that’s happening, imagine being...
Would this be good or bad news?
Swipe down for full video story! The construction of the pyramids of Giza required immense labor and coordination. For those involved, daily work was physically...
In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the planets and our Sun don’t make noise. What would...
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...
With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing every single person on Earth in one giant...
At any moment of any day, the odds are that someone around the world is having an orgasm. We don’t really like to talk about them, but they’re an integral...
Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land...
Did you know that some of the hottest countries in the world have outdoor ventilation? Qatar gets temperatures as hot as 50 °C (122 °F). But luckily for them...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] There are sunsets on other planets even more spectacular than the ones on Earth. What if we could see not just one...
Deep beneath your feet is a subterranean melting pot. A fiery inferno ready to boil over at any moment. Anywhere or anytime. Imagine that today is the day the ground...
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...
Ah. The Sun. So bright. So hot. Time to jump into your super heat-resistant spaceship and get so close you could touch it. If you dare. How would you get to the Sun’s...
Coastal cities across the globe are planning how they will keep the sea away as it rises. One solution? Just move the city. How much would it cost? How do you lift a...
The Sun generates its energy through a process called nuclear fusion. In its core, hydrogen atoms fuse together under the forces of extreme pressure and heat to form...
Forty light years from Earth, there is a world that looks a lot like Venus. But unlike the most sweltering, hellish planet in the Solar System, this not so distant...
Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than Earth’s. Planet Nine, also known by its...
They can lift 5,000 times their body weight. They have armies in the thousands. And they outnumber us a million to one. But ants are tiny, right? Yeah, that’s not going...
A gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet. This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made...
