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      Survival, Earth

      How to Survive the Blue Hole

      November 3, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If You Lived on a Tiny Planet?

      January 5, 2020
      Earth

      What If You Moved an Entire City?

      September 17, 2021
      Science

      What If We All Lived on Mars?

      June 4, 2018
      Body

      What If the Spanish Flu Never Happened?

      March 2, 2021
      Cosmos, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Uranus Collided With Earth

      It’s been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar partner. But then, we understood something...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Giganotosaurus Attacked a Troodon, but the Tiny Dinosaur Had One Advantage

      It’s brain vs. brawns in the ultimate dinosaur showdown. In one corner, we have the giganotosaurus and in the other, the troodon. Although they lived in two...

      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

      Time Just Froze for Everyone but You. What Would You Do?

      If you had a device designed to freeze time for everything but you, life wouldn’t be anything like what you’d expect. You wouldn’t catch up on sleep...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen if a Hypervelocity Star Tore Through Our Solar System

      Most people have heard of shooting stars, but those aren’t actually stars. They are tiny pieces of rock burning through Earth’s atmosphere. A real star...

      MSN New, Humanity

      No Edison, No Modern World? What Vanishes the Moment He’s Gone

      Imagine waking up tomorrow in a timeline where Thomas Edison was never born. No Wizard of Menlo Park. No mountain of patents. No famous inventor dominating the headlines...

      MSN New, Earth

      How 134 Men Vanished While Searching for the Northwest Passage

      In May 1845, Sir John Franklin and 134 men left England on one of the most ambitious Arctic expeditions of the 19th century. Their goal was to navigate the Northwest...

      HTS MSN

      Mauled By His Tiger: The Siegfried & Roy Tragedy

      The sound was described by witnesses as loud and chaotic, a sudden eruption that cut through what was meant to be a carefully controlled stage performance. On October...

      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...

      HTS MSN

      1816 The Year Without Summer – The Truth Behind What Happened

      In North America we love our summers. We are basically trained to love them. From an early age we are taught that our calendar breaks up into school, and summer holidays...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If We Installed a Huge Space Fan to Combat Climate Change?

      Did you know that some of the hottest countries in the world have outdoor ventilation? Qatar gets temperatures as hot as 50 °C (122 °F). But luckily for them...

      Earth

      What If Titanosaurs Never Went Extinct?

      The Titanosaur is no longer. As the largest animal to roam the Earth, you’d think such an impressive presence would be almost invincible. How did this titan of a...

      Humanity

      What If We Became a Type II Civilization?

      When it comes to energy, we have a long way to go before our utility bills become a thing of the past. On the Kardashev scale we’re still a Type 0 civilization...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Built a Giant Ring Around the Sun Big Enough for Trillions of Humans?

      The Earth may not be our home forever. Eventually, we may have to leave. What if instead of finding a potentially habitable exoplanet light-years away, we stayed in our...

      Humanity

      What If You Lived During the Middle Ages?

      Have you ever been curious about Medieval life? Would you travel back in time if you could? Do you think you would enjoy it? How long would you last? Hear ye, hear ye...

      HTS MSN

      $20,000. 8.4 kilos of heroin. 11 lost years.

      Paul Hayward seemed destined for a very different future. A talented Australian rugby player, a skilled boxer with Olympic ambitions, and a devoted husband and father...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Andromeda Is Coming for the Milky Way, and Our Galaxy Is Already Moving Toward It

      Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with our closest major neighbor the Andromeda galaxy, is moving toward a future...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      Imagine If You Spent 100 Years on Mars?

      It’s been 100 Earth years since you settled on Mars. You’ve been through pain, loneliness and a lot of hard work. And now Mars is the new promised land everyone...

      HTS MSN

      She Was Cleaning Her Shed When Brown Recluse Spiders Suddenly Attacked Her

      On July 1, 2024, 44 year old Jessica Rogue of Bogart, Georgia, was cleaning out her shed when she noticed a spider web. She did not think much of it and reached out to...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If You Fell Into a Black Hole for a Nanosecond?

      Black holes are often imagined as cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow everything nearby, but what would really happen if you entered one even for a single nanosecond...

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