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      What If We Found Planet 9?

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      Earth

      What If We Nuked a Hurricane?

      August 28, 2019
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      Body

      What If Humans Were Translucent?

      March 11, 2021
      Earth, Humanity

      10 Things That Could Destroy Humanity in 2025?

      August 19, 2025
      Earth

      What If It Rained Diamonds?

      May 28, 2020
      MSN New, Technology

      Google Just Went Dark for a Week, and the Chaos Was Instant

      Whether it’s Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo, only one tech giant has reigned supreme when it comes to our search engines. Google. It’s so dominant around the...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Actually Happen if the Universe Tore Itself Apart

      Imagine standing in your kitchen, unable to decide what to eat. Should you pour a cup of coffee or make a sandwich? In everyday life, you eventually choose one option...

      Earth, Humanity

      100 Years Into the Future: What Life on Earth and Beyond Could Look Like

      What if we told you that within the next 100 years, humans could merge with AI, control the weather, and even bring extinct species back to life? From space exploration...

      Earth

      What If You Never Threw Anything Away?

      Hoarders. They can’t bear to throw anything away. They pile up stuff everywhere, cluttering every space until they can’t move anymore. What if we could flip...

      MSN New, Humanity

      You Are Living in a Computer Simulation, and You May Never Know It

      What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s hard drive, how would you know? Who...

      Cosmos, Earth

      What If Earth and Moon Switched Sizes?

      Imagine for a moment that Earth suddenly shrank to the size of the Moon, while the Moon expanded to the size of Earth. How would life on our planet change? Could humans...

      HTS MSN

      How This Caterpillar’s Touch Can Kill You?

      It looks like an ordinary fuzzy caterpillar resting on the trunk of a tree. But don’t let its harmless appearance fool you. This tiny insect is one of the most...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The ISS Won’t Last Forever, and Humanity Has Already Designed What Comes Next

      Space tourism is much closer than you may think. The International Space Station will soon retire from its successful run through low Earth orbit. But humanity’s...

      MSN New, Science

      The Secret Is a Jelly Inside Its Body, and Humans Barely Produce Any of It

      There is a thick, jelly like substance packed throughout the body of one particular animal, and it may be the closest thing science has found to a fountain of youth...

      HTS MSN

      The Ocean’s Top Predator Is Coming for You. Now What?

      Your day at a marine park went terribly wrong.You got so excited that you didn’t watch your step and fell into a tank filled with 9 m (29 ft) killer whales. Now...

      MSN New

      Dropping an Iceberg Into a Volcano Turns Disaster Into Something Worse

      A nearby volcano is showing signs of an imminent eruption. Seismic activity is increasing, magma is rising, and the pressure beneath the surface is building. In a...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If The Last Ice Age Never Ended?

      Right now, a wall of ice nearly two miles thick is covering the land where Chicago used to be. And it has been moving across the continent for 20,000 years without ever...

      MSN New

      What Happens If Earth’s Orbit Becomes Full of Space Junk?

      With every rocket we launch into the Earth’s orbit, we’re trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending rockets into space put an end to...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If the Ancient Comet 3I/ATLAS Hit Our Planet?

      A rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I Atlas is currently drifting through our Solar System. At first glance, it might look like just another icy rock in space...

      Earth, MSN, MSN New

      What If Solar Power Could Cool the Planet?

      Why do solar panels look so different these days? And why have we started installing them on top of mountains, using them to pave our roads, and putting them in the...

      MSN New, Earth, MSN

      Find Out Who Would Win in a Battle Between a Titanoboa and T-Rex

      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...

      MSN New, Earth

      It Started Raining Diamonds, and the World Was Never the Same Again

      Some places in the Solar System have some pretty expensive rain falling on their surface. Let’s see if we could bring those home. What would it take for Earth to...

      MSN New, Earth

      Lava Hits 1,200 Degrees and Nitrogen Sits at Minus 210, So You Would Need Cannonballs

      Lava reaches 1,200 degrees Celsius. Liquid nitrogen sits at minus 210. Put those two numbers side by side and the experiment writes itself. What happens if you dump one...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Billions of Dollars for a Prison That Holds Almost Nobody

      Here is the number that quietly kills the whole idea. Modern prisons are built to hold thousands of inmates at once. Alcatraz was never close to that, and even after...

      Cosmos

      What If the Largest Black Hole Entered Our Solar System?

      It’s invisible, deadly and sucking up every bit of matter in its path. The most massive black hole in the known Universe is headed right toward Earth. What would you see...

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