The next time you see that adorable hummingbird at your feeder, remember one thing. It might take your life. Because in this world, every bird works for the government...
Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and frightening tools ever created by humanity. With over twelve thousand warheads spread across the globe, these devices hold...
First of all, look at the map. Iran isn’t a country, it’s a fortress. Three times the landmass of Iraq. Four times the population. And mountains that...
Day X has arrived. Mount Fuji, Japan’s most famous volcano, is erupting for the first time in 300 years. It’s raining ash, lava and toxic gases down on the world’s...
If you were going for a refreshing swim, the last thing you’d expect is to suffocate from toxic gases. But when it comes to Lake Kivu, this is one dangerous body...
Some places in the Solar System have some pretty expensive rain falling on their surface. Let’s see if we could bring those home. What would it take for Earth to...
Whether you enjoy rock music, or pop, or if classical or jazz takes your fancy, we all love music. But what if we had never invented music? No, rhythms, no melodies...
Imagine a world where you could move objects with your mind, cure cancer with microscopic machines, or even live to be 1,000 years old. The future of science is...
Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just want to take the entire planet on a joy ride...
Earth can be full of extremes. But today, there is only one extreme. Non-stop earthquakes that last an entire year. What would it be like to live under such shaky...
Plastic surrounds us in ways most of us don’t even notice. From the toothbrushes we use in the morning to the water bottles in our hands, plastic is everywhere. But have...
The icy moon of Jupiter. A world so frigid that its surface temperatures would instantly turn you into an astronaut popsicle. Its atmosphere is almost non existent, and...
The sound of trickling water might seem harmless, even peaceful. But in the polar regions, this sound is a sinister warning of an event that could swallow up the arctic...
Spiders are prolific. There are 45,000 species of spiders that we currently know of, and scientists estimate that there are twice that amount we haven’t discovered...
Children of the night, what music they make. That’s right, we’re talking about the nocturnal flying mammals, bats. Besides being a source of Halloween inspiration, the...
Mars didn’t always look like this. It may have once been covered in oceans. But what if we brought all the Martian water back and transformed the red planet into...
If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something...
It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as...
Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and...
The miracle of life. A 40-week process where you developed from a single cell to fully formed human baby. All within in your mother’s womb. Now, imagine you were...
