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...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
Billionaires Are Building Underground Bunkers for the Apocalypse, but Surviving Below the Surface Comes With a Price
In some of the wealthiest corners of the world, the very rich are putting their money towards building underground bunkers to survive the apocalypse. These subterranean...
You walked to your neighbor’s door with the best intentions. They left their car lights on, but before you could tell them, a pack of furious beasts run after you...
Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lives a creature so strange that it looks more like an alien than a fish. With oversized fangs, a massive head, and a body adapted...
Thor’s Well, sometimes referred to as the “drainpipe of the Pacific,” is a rocky, circular hole in the Pacific Ocean that was formed after the collapse...
Everyone assumes more trees means a cooler planet. Plant enough of them and the temperature comes down. The Sahara might prove that assumption wrong in the most...
Most people would probably run in the opposite direction after seeing a tarantula. Despite their frightening appearance, these enormous spiders usually prefer to avoid...
September 1928. A London laboratory sits empty while its owner takes a summer holiday. When Alexander Fleming finally comes back, his workspace is exactly as messy as he...
First off, we’re going to have to be a Type 1 civilization. Then collectively, we can use all the energy available on our planet. It also gets rid of the monotony of...
Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes loose. Normally, that would be a fatal...
First of all, yes, it’s pronounced Enceladus , not enchiladas. Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon, but it would be better described as a winter...
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...
When people picture AI going wrong, they picture the film version. Robots in the streets, computers waking up, humanity ending up in service to its own inventions...
If you find yourself going into a freefall inside a metal tube hurtling through the clouds at hundreds of kilometers per hour, and an oxygen mask drops down right in...
The most deadly predator of the sea spent its days conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but imagine...
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...
When people think of the world’s strongest animals, they often imagine elephants pulling massive loads or large predators overpowering prey. But in nature, “strength”...
Back in 2015, NASA’s Kepler mission spotted a planet that looked remarkably close to our own, a world now known as Kepler 452b. It circles a star similar to the...
Across parts of the United States, deer are being found acting in ways that seem almost impossible to explain. Some stumble through forests, lose their balance, drool...
In today’s tech-savvy world, it’s all around you – an invisible world of electromagnetic signals and radio waves. Wi-Fi, or Wireless Fidelity, is responsible for...
