Fake news may seem like a modern problem created by the internet and social media, but historians have traced its origins back more than a century. Long before online...
What if climate change was taken to the absolute extreme and the entire planet’s ice melted?
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Humans are perfectly adapted for life on land, but what if evolution had pushed us back into the oceans instead? Over millions of years...
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...
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...
Doesn't it suck having a noisy neighbor? Or constantly running into your ex? We all need personal space, but often find we can't get enough. Don't you wish the world was...
Could you face guards who shoot to kill? Swim for hours or even days in the open sea? Or cross a vast, hostile desert? What kind of place can push a person to make these...
Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet...
You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as...
If only there were a simple trick to stop a massive volcano from spewing out lava. Like maybe plugging it up with good old concrete. A massive volcanic explosion sends...
For thousands of years, eels have puzzled scientists, philosophers, and fishermen alike. They spend much of their lives hidden in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, yet...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story Cities have been named after it, economies have been built on it, wars have been fought over it, your life depends on it. Salt may be the...
This small, cute looking creature is one of the most dangerous animals in the ocean. It hides on shallow reefs, blending into its surroundings. While snorkeling or...
When you ask someone a question, you expect a truthful answer, right? In an ideal world, people would always be honest. But research suggests reality is far messier than...
The ocean may look peaceful from the shore, but beneath the surface lives an entire world of deadly predators. Some are massive hunters capable of tearing apart large...
From the earliest moments of human imagination, the Moon has always been there. Hanging in the night sky, shaping tides, marking time, and quietly influencing life on...
In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets and frozen over several times. Not to mention being ruled by all kinds of...
For decades, Jurassic Park has captured the imagination of audiences around the world. The idea of bringing dinosaurs back from extinction and filling entire parks with...
Imagine for a moment that Earth suddenly shrank to the size of the Moon, while the Moon expanded to the size of Earth. How would life on our planet change? Could humans...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in...
