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      Earth

      What If Pangea Never Broke Apart?

      September 9, 2019
      Earth

      What If We Dumped All Our Trash in the Oceans?

      November 23, 2021
      Cosmos

      What If We Nuked Jupiter?

      November 4, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If the Big Rip Happened Tomorrow?

      May 13, 2020
      Body

      What If You Only Ate Insects for the Rest of Your Life?

      July 26, 2021
      HTS MSN

      The True Reason Behind the Crocodile Hunter’s Death Revealed

      Steve Irwin, known worldwide as “The Crocodile Hunter,” spent his entire life working closely with some of the most dangerous animals on the planet. But on the morning...

      DailyMoment, Earth, Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      Earth Day: What Happens If We Plant a Trillion Trees?

      It’s dawn, it’s dark, and you don’t what kind of weather is waiting for you outside your tent. It doesn’t matter anyway. In rain, hail, sleet...

      MSN New

      The Hidden Origin of Fake News Historians Traced Back 100 Years

      Fake news may seem like a modern problem created by the internet and social media, but historians have traced its origins back more than a century. Long before online...

      HTS MSN

      Dolphins Aren’t Always as Friendly as You Think

      Lexi Yeo thought dolphins were friendly creatures until swimming with them changed her mind forever. Out of nowhere, an aggressive bottlenose dolphin started to bite...

      MSN New, Earth

      What if Nature Took It All Back?

      Every city, highway, bridge, and skyscraper on Earth tells the same story. Humans have transformed nearly every corner of the planet, shaping landscapes to suit our...

      Cosmos

      What If the Solar System Orbited a Black Hole?

      What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But...

      Humanity

      What If One Million People Actually Stormed Area 51?

      If you happened to wander into the Nevada desert and stumbled upon the secret U.S. military base, Area 51, you’d quickly be arrested, killed, or maybe even...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      SpaceX Hit the Moon, But What Would Happen If We Nuked It?

      When a piece of space debris connected to a SpaceX mission crashed into the Moon, it created a wave of curiosity around what happens when humans leave their mark on the...

      Cosmos

      What If an Asteroid Were on a Collision Course to Hit Earth?

      Somewhere in the far reaches of space, a giant hunk of rock is hurtling our way, just biding its time before an extinction-level impact with Earth. Before you run into...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Black Hole Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System, and Here’s the Danger

      Something unusual seems to be lurking at the far edge of our Solar System. Some think it could be a hidden, oversized planet. Others suspect something far stranger, an...

      Cosmos

      Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth

      Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be...

      MSN New, Humanity

      AI Does Not Need to Take Over the World, It Only Needs to Take Your Job

      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...

      MSN New

      Have We Already Made Contact With Aliens?

      Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe for artificial radio signals. The idea is...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If Canada Joined the United States as the 51st State?

      America’s current President has repeatedly suggested and called for Canada to become the 51st state of America. While the Canadian government has forcefully...

      MSN New

      Historians Are Discovering Lost Cities Hidden From Space

      For thousands of years, ancient cities have disappeared beneath forests, deserts, and modern landscapes. Entire civilizations have been forgotten, leaving behind only...

      Earth, MSN New

      What Would Happen If You Jumped Into Lake Natron?

      Before we take the plunge, we could better take a look at what Lake Natron is made of. Much like the Dead Sea, this lake in Tanzania doesn’t run off into any...

      Humanity

      What If You Brought Modern Technology to the Middle Ages?

      The Middle Ages, a time when you were more likely to die on the toilet than take a bath. And now you’re going there with an educational mission. It’s up to...

      Earth

      What If We Filled Our Oceans Up With Lava?

      How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen Inside Jupiter’s Atmosphere If You Made Fire?

      Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. It is more than 300 times more massive than Earth, yet it is far less dense. Unlike Earth, it does not have a solid...

      Cosmos, MSN, MSN New

      The True Scale of the Largest Objects in the Universe

      Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across...

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