What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars. Mars often comes to mind as a close option but...
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You hear a sharp cracking sound. You look up. A massive tree is leaning toward you, its weight shifting as gravity takes control. There is no time to think, no time to...
For more than four decades, scientists believed it was gone forever. No sightings. No evidence. No surviving populations. An entire species appeared to have vanished...
The Sun produces more energy in a single second than humanity has used throughout its entire history. Every day, it releases an unimaginable amount of power, but most of...
Have you ever wondered how much information your brain can actually hold? According to Professor Paul Reber from Northwestern University, the human brain has an...
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and our nearest neighbor. At its closest approach, Venus is mere 40 million km (25 million mi) away from us. After just four...
Located 2,383 light-years from Earth, in the Cygnus constellation, is a potential super-Earth. At least that’s what it’s often referred to as. Kepler 69c is an exoplanet...
Pets can be many things to people. To some, pets are life-changing family members. To others, they’re noisy troublemakers. And pets are the stars of hilarious...
Imagine waking up tomorrow and realizing you no longer need a phone, a keyboard, or even a screen. You simply think about a question, and the answer appears in your mind...
Imagine looking up into the night sky and seeing not one but 79 different moons beaming back at you. What would this new night sky look like? How would this affect the...
Would we all need night vision goggles? How would it affect the ocean tides? Our seasons? Or our sleep cycles? Or would the consequences be far more drastic? As the...
What if you walked into your favorite fast food place, and instead of chicken and beef burgers, they only had Woolly Rhinoceros on the menu? Well, it might not sound...
Cats may be known as cute and playful pets, but they are still predators with sharp claws, powerful jaws, and lightning fast reflexes. While most cats avoid serious...
Death and the possibility of an afterlife have fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists throughout history. Fear, hope, dread… these are all things we...
What’s the best place to put solar panels? Close to the Sun, of course. And in this scenario, we’re going to build the most efficient solar farm possible...
See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far...
Ever feel like the Earth is just too small? Well, let’s make it bigger. Much, much bigger. Welcome to a new Earth that is just as big as Jupiter. In what ways would the...
Few environments on Earth are as unforgiving as the desert. Humans are built to survive within a fairly narrow range of temperatures, and we depend on a steady supply of...
With so many amazing things happening in the world today, what could possibly go wrong? Well… A giant asteroid is barrelling on a collision course with Earth, and...
