Located on the border of Ontario, Canada, and New York State, this amazing waterfall system is comprised of three different waterfalls with a combined width of 1,204 m...
In a matter of days, a nearby volcano will erupt, spewing debris and lava, and decimating your city. You know that fighting fire with fire usually makes things worse...
Human civilization is still in its infancy. According to the Kardashev Scale, a method used to measure a civilization’s technological advancement based on energy...
Mountains can seem eternal, but they are constantly changing. They rise through geological forces, slowly erode, and eventually become part of the landscape around them...
The next step in space exploration isn’t waiting for some distant generation. It’s being planned right now, and the destination is the desolate world sitting...
Making sense of the universe often has less to do with picturing it accurately and more to do with accepting how badly our everyday intuition fails once distances get...
What if north suddenly became south and south became north? What if Earth’s magnetic poles reversed overnight, just like they did around 780,000 years ago? The...
If you have arachnophobia, you might want to look away. What you are about to hear sounds like something pulled straight from a nightmare. Deep in the rainforests of...
Until its closure in 2014, a dedicated area for inmates suffering from mental illnesses occupied the 9th floor of Miami-Dade County’s Pre-Trial Detention Center...
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...
Are you ready for the sun to die?
Tired of living on an overpopulated Earth? Why not move to the O’Neill Cylinder? An artificial state-of-the-art space habitat where we can control everything...
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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...
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...
Most people think of radio as a source of music, news, sports, or talk shows. But hidden among ordinary broadcasts is a mystery that has fascinated listeners, amateur...
10. Computer Mice The computer mouse is one of the most familiar tools in modern computing, but its origins trace back to NASA related research in the 1960s. Engineers...
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The World’s Longest Bridge Is Tiny Compared to This, and Building One Across an Ocean Would Change Everything
The desire to get to one place from another has been with us for a long time. In Mycenae, Greece, ancient remnants of bridges have been found dating back to about 1600 B...
Danger can be found almost anywhere in the world. Sometimes, being in the wrong place at the wrong time is all it takes to become caught in a dangerous situation. But...
“Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth” That’s right. It’s...
Our world can change in a matter of minutes. One moment, you are living your normal daily life, and the next, you hear a powerful explosion in the distance. The ground...
