A blizzard can turn an ordinary drive into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Heavy snowfall, strong winds, and near zero visibility make it almost impossible...
Imagine a world, where no woman could ask for an abortion. Even if she’d been sexually assaulted. Even if not having an abortion means her own life would be at...
Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes loose. Normally, that would be a fatal...
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...
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Christa Pike Survived Two Lethal Injections, but She Wasn’t the Only One to Survive an Execution
Christa Pike, a death row inmate in Tennessee, survived an extraordinary execution attempt involving lethal injection. After two doses of the execution drug were...
Food is scarce. Money is worthless. Riots are everywhere. The world is in chaos. This isn’t our past. It’s our future. Humans and bees have a bit of a love...
In six hours, you, your government, and 124 million other people across 14 states will be tested by the greatest disaster to ever hit the U.S. East Coast. A great wave...
Imagine arriving in a galaxy where humanity controls every star, planet, and particle of energy. This is the reality of a type three civilization, one of the most...
Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing a bright blue planet where the Moon should be. At first, it would look like a beautiful cosmic event. But then astronomers...
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The World’s Biggest Nuclear Bomb Is Taken to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench, and Then It Begins
Today we’re dropping a big bomb into the deepest part of the ocean. So grab a surfboard and get ready to hang ten on the waves of a massive nuclear tsunami. How would...
Watch your head. Some seriously big asteroids are crashing into Earth. What kinds of shapes and sizes do they have? Which ones would have the deadliest impact? And which...
It was supposed to be the ultimate waterslide experience. Towering 52 meters, or about 170 feet, above the ground, the attraction promised riders an extreme journey...
Every rocket we launch brings us one step closer to being locked on this planet permanently. That sounds backwards. Sending things into space should open it up, not...
Hearing someone scream “snake!” can cause people to panic. And when you’re in the shallow, murky rivers of South America, home to the deadly anaconda, you realize this...
[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...
Every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region of Japan to watch men ride enormous logs down a mountainside. Not metaphorically. They climb on top of...
Neuralink is an American company started by oh, let’s just say “well-known public figure” Elon Musk. Launched back in 2017, its mission was to provide...
You’re swimming in the sea when you feel a long creature brush by you underwater. Suddenly, there’s a sharp pain in your arm. Whatever that thing was, it...
You’re reaching out to pet a horse when it tries to chomp on your arm. Startled, you step back and the horse rears up. If it comes down on you, you could be...
Proxima b is very promising. It orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri in a system with three stars in it. Proxima Centauri is small. It only has between 7.5%...
