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      Cosmos

      10 Duodecillion Years Into the Future?

      August 14, 2025
      Cosmos

      What If the Sun Exploded Tomorrow?

      December 24, 2019
      Survival, Earth

      How to Survive the Killer Lakes

      November 2, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If Earth Was the Center of the Solar System?

      October 25, 2021
      Cosmos

      What If We Could Open a Portal to a Parallel Universe?

      September 3, 2019
      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...

      MSN New

      Inside the Museum of the Future: Earth’s Next Space Station

      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, Technology

      The Robot Built to Cross Terrain No Machine Should Handle

      Robots have come a long way from simple machines that could only perform repetitive tasks. Today, engineers are creating advanced robots that can walk, climb, navigate...

      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      A gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet. This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made...

      Earth

      What If We Sunk Our Trash in the Mariana Trench?

      All over the world, people are treating bodies of water like they are giant garbage dumps. And experts say that continuing these practices will result in catastrophic...

      Cosmos

      What If You Fell Into a Black Neutron Star?

      A dark, mysterious object has appeared at the outer edges of our Solar System. It looks like the remnants of a dying star. But it behaves like a black hole. Your mission...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Jupiter Was a Rocky Planet?

      Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but on the...

      HTS MSN

      How to Protect Yourself From the Amazon’s Most Feared Fish

      On the waters of the Amazon, an ancient world flows below your feet. But make a wrong move, and part of this world may end up inside you. Better get out of the water...

      MSN New

      They Found the Biggest Fish in the World

      At first glance, it looks like something is wrong. A strange, floating slab of flesh rises beside a fishing boat, as if the rest of the animal is missing. But this is...

      Earth

      What If Earth’s Atmosphere Became Super-heated to 1,000 Degrees for 5 Seconds?

      Have you ever felt like it was so hot out that you could cook an egg on the road? Or do you enjoy incredibly spicy foods for the thrill of it? Well, imagine living in an...

      MSN New

      What If Money Was Equally Distributed?

      What does wealth look like to you? Is it a hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? A million dollars? We can always go higher. But how much is too much? In today’s...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Full Year of Nonstop Rain Would Reshape the World Fast

      Flooding, devastation, and disease. What could all these awful things have in common? Rain. And lots of it. We’re not talking April showers here. So, imagine a...

      Cosmos

      What If You Drank a Glass of Moon Water?

      Would you drink water that was extracted from the Moon? With NASA’s recent discovery of water on the Moon’s surface, it might become a more common practice...

      HTS MSN

      He Stepped Inside the Robot’s Safety Fence, and Seconds Later It Pinned Him to a Machine

      Industrial robots are intended to make factories work more quickly and efficiently, but they can also become extremely hazardous if anything goes wrong. At present...

      MSN New

      What Would Actually Happen to Your Mind as the Last Person on Earth

      For whatever reason, you are the last human on Earth. No more voices in the distance. No more messages. No more footsteps that are not your own. At first, it feels like...

      MSN New, Humanity

      You Are the Last Child on Earth, and Humanity Is Counting on You

      There have been 108 billion Homo sapiens born on Earth. But you are the very last one. With no other babies being born after you, you would be the end of the human race...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If You Were Still Alive at 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...

      Science

      The What If Show During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      The current coronavirus crisis is a difficult time for all of us. We want you, our fans and your loved ones, to be informed about the coronavirus and what you can do to...

      Earth

      What If We Drained the Mediterranean?

      Scroll down to watch the video. Imagine the Mediterranean Sea is disappearing! Old shipwrecks are rearing their ugly heads as the water drains around them, and...

      MSN New, Cosmos, Earth

      Every Blazar We Can See Is Already Aimed at Earth, and Here Is How Long We’d Have

      Here is the part that unsettles astronomers. Every blazar we can see is already pointing its jet directly at Earth. Not most of them. All of them. Any blazar aiming its...

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