Since the early days of spiritualism, psychic mediums have claimed to contact the dead. During these sessions, their clients could see objects mysteriously flying across...
The air around you is so ordinary that you rarely think about it. Yet every breath, every sound you hear, every cloud in the sky, and every drop of liquid water depends...
Imagine hiking through a forest when you notice a large cat watching you from the shadows. At first, it looks like a modern tiger. Then it steps into the light...
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The impact was so devastating that it wiped out the...
In December 1968, two teenagers were shot to death in their car. There were no clues pointing to who was responsible, leaving investigators with a deadly mystery and no...
Scientists theorize that many millions of years ago, Mars had rings, just like Saturn. And it looks like the red planet could be due for a new set of rings in the future...
A massive asteroid just hit Earth, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to NASA’s new infrared telescope, we were able to detect it and prepare for the...
We visit a lot of planets here on WHAT IF, but K2-141b is the most extreme one yet. Are you ready to jump on board this one-way space shuttle? If you’d rather stay...
In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be drastically altered by a gravitational...
This former intelligence officer-turned-president took Russia from a defeated Cold War relic to the most feared superpower in Eurasia. Now Vladimir Putin, who many have...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a massive gas giant so enormous that its gravitational influence reaches far beyond its distant orbit. Although it...
Somewhere under the street you live on, there is a pipe. And in this scenario, it is about to burst. The plan is simple and completely insane. Everyone on Earth flushes...
What if all the Earth’s land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the...
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We Drain a Giant Coral Atoll for More Living Space, and the Consequences Spread Worldwide
Let’s face it. There are A LOT of us, and it’s getting more than a little crowded. Right now, there are over 7.7 billion people on Earth, and the United Nations predicts...
You have probably heard of pigeons delivering messages and horses carrying soldiers through battlefields in wartime history. But a bear serving in the army sounds almost...
What’s shiny, liquid, conducts electricity and is also the surname of a legendary rock star? You guessed it, mercury. This naturally occurring element has a lot of...
Across the world, ancient legends often spoke of magnificent cities that vanished without a trace, swallowed by time, war, or nature itself. For centuries, these places...
They wallow in filth and are the primary cause of childhood asthma. They aren’t going away anytime soon, they have been pests for about four million years, and...
The most deadly predator of the sea spent its day conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but...
Nature already made its decision. The woolly mammoth, the saber toothed tiger, the dodo bird, all of them were judged by climate, by predators, by shifting ecosystems...
