Since the dawn of human curiosity, the Moon has been a constant fixture overhead, quietly pulling at the tides, marking the passage of time, and shaping conditions on...
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is notorious for killing and preserving dead animals. If you died in its waters, its high levels of sodium carbonate would mummify your...
They’re in your yard, on your walls, in your attic, and there’s probably one near you right now. The thought of these creepy crawlers might make you want to go on an...
When most people think of bats, they picture small, shadowy creatures fluttering through the night sky. But what if someone told you there was a bat with a wingspan...
Billions of years from now, the Sun will enter the final stage of its life. It will swell into a massive red giant before eventually shrinking into a stellar remnant...
MSN New, Cosmos, Humanity
The ISS Retires in 2030, and Private Companies Are Already Building What Replaces It
The International Space Station is dying, and there is a date on it. Air leaks. System failures. Two decades of continuous operation finally catching up with a machine...
The Solar System seems calm, but that tranquility is more fragile than it appears. Now imagine one day looking up and noticing something unfamiliar in the sky. A tiny...
Humanity is already filling the space around our planet with machines. Around Earth, thousands of satellites are currently circling above us, each one serving a...
MSN New, Humanity
Humanity Is Building Its Greatest Technologies, but They Could Become Our Biggest Threat
You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be terrifying. Lasers. Artificial intelligence...
Few animals in freshwater ecosystems have a reputation as intense as piranhas. Popular culture often shows them as aggressive predators capable of stripping flesh in...
1. The Earth Rotates Every 24 Hours No matter how many times you set it, your watch will always be a little off. That’s because the common belief that our planet...
Kenton Carnegie was a 22 year old honors geological engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He was doing a co op at a mining camp near...
Wouldn’t it be great to have a truly jaw-dropping view? Like windows looking directly into space? Well, it’s time to build your very own cosmic skyscraper. What would it...
When most people think of Ancient Egypt, they picture towering pyramids, golden treasures, and powerful rulers commanding vast kingdoms. While those images are certainly...
Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across...
MSN New, Earth
The Dinosaurs Were Already Dangerous, Millions More Years Could Have Changed Everything
When you look back through the evolutionary history of life on Earth, it’s important to remember it’s always been a game of survival. And only the fittest...
Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy...
In 1974, 18 year old Karen Sparks was a student at the University of Washington. Before the attack, she remembered seeing an older man staring at her in a laundromat...
What if the brightest explosion in the Universe was heading straight toward Earth? Would humanity have time to prepare, or would the event happen so quickly that there...
What if climate change was taken to the absolute extreme and the entire planet’s ice melted?
