What if you had the power to control things without touching them? What if you could use your mind for anything from bending spoons to lifting cars, and even stopping...
Elon Musk has just claimed Mars as his own personal planet. Building his own human colony on the Red Planet, independent of Earth and with it’s own set of laws...
Unlike Earth, which is securely orbiting the Sun, there are billions of rogue planets drifting through the Milky Way with no star to call home. These worlds were likely...
The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can...
As the world watches the war Russia brutally started in Ukraine, you wonder how these countries would be different if the dictator Vladimir Putin never took office. Who...
What would it actually be like if every particle in your body converted into a dark matter particle? And how long could you last in that state? Everything that we can...
If you got into a spaceship, and traveled long enough and fast enough, could you eventually loop back to where you started? Assuming you don’t accidentally collide...
In the future, humans may no longer have a need for physical forms. We’ll be able to explore different multiverses and manipulate time itself. These are just a few...
On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth...
What if I told you there was a way for you to know what lies ahead for you? Well, science could just have a way to predict your future. And it might become a reality...
Having your business meeting in a forest. Making a sales call on the beach. Or accounting at the top of a mountain. This could be your reality if you could work anywhere...
A team of Russian scientists is working hard to resurrect this quintessential Ice Age behemoth. But what if they never disappeared in the first place, and still roamed...
Almost half of the world’s population uses one of Meta’s services every month. Facebook and Instagram combined hold over 75% of the social media market share, and...
Fifty-eight million years ago, the most dangerous snake to ever exist roamed the Earth. It was the apex predator of its time,terrorizing everything in sight. In one...
Black holes are dark, matter-devouring balls of gravity. Most of them are so far away that we don’t need to worry about them. But not this one. Meet Gaia BH1. This...
In 1918, the world was at war. While soldiers fought each other on the frontlines, an even greater threat emerged, the Spanish flu. Between 50 to 100 million people died...
What if everyone on the planet coordinated to perform the biggest “flush mob” in history? Pushing all the wastewater in the world down the drain, all at once...
At first thought, volcanoes might seem like the perfect natural disposal system. They are incredibly hot, appear to swallow anything in their path, and seem limitless in...
Today on What If, we’re going to build the highest bridge on planet Earth. Welcome to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the “Roof of the World.”It’s home to the world’s...
It’s January 2027. No warning sirens sound across America or Europe. No emergency alert flashes across your phone. By the time the world realizes how serious things have...
