Imagine your world without portable computers, GPS, or the internet. Does it make your palms a little sweaty? Would you be able to get through the day? We’ve...
Imagine landscapes across the world suddenly filled with people planting trees. Fields, hills, damaged forests, and abandoned land would become part of the largest...
Scientists at Ohio State University strapped ants into a centrifuge and slowly increased the force pulling on their bodies, waiting to see where the neck joint would...
Every civilization needs resources. Wood, then coal, then oil, then sunlight. Each step up the ladder means learning to use something bigger than whatever came before...
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’s been over 200 million years since South America broke off Africa into its own continent. But now it’s behaving very strangely. It’s taking on water and going down...
It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living rooms as Apollo 11’s Eagle lander...
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...
Scorpions live on every continent except Antarctica. They’re arachnids, part of the same charming family as tarantulas and delicious lobsters. And they have...
An unexpected guest has made its way into our Solar System. It’s an interstellar object, an ISO. And it’s tumbling through space in a way that can’t be explained by...
In five billion years, we’re gonna have a hefty problem on our hands. Well, only if we’re still living on Earth at this point. Our Sun will be on the brink...
You came to a water park for some good old summer fun. But the guy in line in front of you is missing a tooth. And the group behind you seems to be drunk. Now it’s...
It may sound unusual that a little bug could be this deadly, but it’s true. Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, yellow fever and the dengue virus. They do it...
You’re reaching out to pet a horse when it tries to chomp on your arm. Startled, you step back and the horse rears up. If it comes down on you, you could be...
The sky turns orange. A loud noise is coming from the distance and getting closer. You turn and see a wall of sand, rising meters (yards) above the ground, and you’re...
Termites are some of the oldest insects on Earth, with fossils dating back around 130 million years to the Early Cretaceous period. Today, they can be found on six of...
If you could, would you live on the Moon? Not as one of the courageous early settlers, but as a citizen of a fully-functioning Moon city. What would they be built out of...
What was supposed to be a peaceful encounter with an elephant ended in tragedy when a young tourist was killed during an elephant bathing experience in Thailand. The...
Scroll down to watch our video. Unless you’re an astronaut, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gravity. We all take gravity for granted...
Imagine a white picket fence around a white house, with a white driveway and a white car. And it’s not just your house that’s white. It’s also the road...
