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      What If You Were Attacked by a Giant Squid?

      October 28, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Entered a New Ice Age?

      September 7, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If We Dug a Hole Through the Moon?

      May 11, 2020
      Body

      What If You Could Record Your Dreams?

      September 5, 2019
      Science

      What If You Lived Inside a Hologram?

      March 28, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If You Traveled Through a Black Hole?

      Dark, mysterious and consuming everything around them, black holes will rip apart anything that passes their event horizons. But could there be more? What would happen...

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      What Would Life Be Like on Jupiter’s Deadly Moons?

      Jupiter is not just the largest planet in our Solar System. It is also surrounded by a vast collection of moons, dozens of them in total, each one shaped by extreme...

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      How to Live Without Sunlight on Earth

      They say doomsday is near. But you have been safe in your bunker for months, far away from the chaos outside. At first, isolation felt like protection. Now your body...

      Cosmos

      What If You Traveled to a Black Hole?

      Black holes aren’t exactly a popular vacation destination. They feed on anything and everything that comes into their vicinity. They are dense, and unpredictably...

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      He Was Bitten by a Decapitated Snake and Survived

      Jeremy Sutcliffe thought the most dangerous part of his encounter with a rattlesnake was already over. In 2018, Jeremy was working in his backyard when he suddenly heard...

      Humanity

      What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

      If you traveled 10,000 years into the future, what would planet Earth look like? Would most of its surface be covered in volcanoes? Or would it be frozen in ice? What if...

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      Physicists Explain Earth’s Chances Against a Black Hole

      Imagine looking up at the night sky and learning that a black hole is racing toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. Not a giant one that swallows galaxies, but a...

      Earth

      What If the World Lost Oxygen for an Hour?

      Imagine if all the Earth’s oxygen disappeared. Not forever, just for, say, an hour? Could you hold your breath that long? What would happen to the atmosphere? And...

      Earth

      What If North America Suddenly Sank Into the Oceans?

      Imagine if Earth suddenly lost an entire continent. North America wouldn’t just vanish off the face of the planet, of course. Instead, it would sink into the...

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      Collapse by 2100… The Warning the World Keeps Ignoring

      The warning has already been published. It sits in a scientific journal, written in careful academic language, and it says something no headline wants to print:...

      Cosmos

      What If We Turned the Moon Into a Giant Farm?

      As Earth’s population multiplies each year, we’re quickly running out of resources to feed the planet. Before long, we’re going to need more space to...

      Science

      What If We Covered the Moon With Solar Panels?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Not too far from Earth is a giant space rock that has silently played host to just twelve people in its entire...

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      What Earth Would Actually Look Like Without Any Humans

      Imagine waking up one day to find that every human on Earth has vanished. No warning. No survivors. Cities stand exactly as they were the day before, but every street is...

      Science

      What If We Lived Our Lives Backward?

      Some say, “youth is wasted on the young.” So what if it wasn’t? What if you didn’t have to dread aging? Your eyesight failing? Your joints aching...

      Humanity

      What If We Planted 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...

      Cosmos

      What If We Replaced Our Moon With a Disco Ball?

      Get ready for the most epic party of your life. Because someone replaced our Moon with a disco ball. How could you turn the Moon into a classic disco ball? How much more...

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      The Hidden History of the 20,000 Nazis Who Took Over New York City

      It sounds impossible today, but in the 1930s, a Nazi movement existed inside the United States. While Nazi Germany was rising in Europe, American supporters of Adolf...

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      What Would Happen If You Were Trapped in a Tanning Bed for 24 Hours?

      You probably already know that tanning under UV lights isn’t good for you. But to see just how harmful tanning beds can be, we’re going to crank up your exposure time...

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      What If a Nuke Goes Off in Washington, D.C.?

      Washington, D.C. is more than just the capital of the United States. It is the center of American political power, home to the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court...

      Cosmos

      What If You Survived the End of the Solar System?

      Billions of years from now, the Sun will become a red giant. And then, it will slowly die. That’s right. It’s the end of the Solar System, and this is your survival...

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