There are three words that put the fear of death into the very bravest of souls. Three words to make your blood run cold. Hungry.Hungry. Hippos. While they make look...
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This Is How You Create Your Own Periodic Table, and Putting It Together Gets Dangerous
How far into the periodic table could you get? Would you be breaking any laws? At what point would your periodic table start killing you? If you’re willing to...
From the earliest moments of human imagination, the Moon has always been there. Hanging in the night sky, shaping tides, marking time, and quietly influencing life on...
In 2018, a British woman named Holly spent a day in the sun in Tenerife, Spain. That evening she noticed her face beginning to swell, so she did the most natural thing...
At any moment of any day, the odds are that someone around the world is having an orgasm. We don’t really like to talk about them, but they’re an integral...
Who doesn’t love a good race? But this time you’re going headfirst at 132 km/h (80 mph) down an icy track. Only 2.5 cm (1 in) separates the hard cold ice from your...
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...
Humans have been evolving for the past six million years. But something’s gone terribly wrong. And now we are evolving backward. Once this process began, how long...
A growling sound wakes you in the middle of the night. Your eyes open, and in the dim light of your room you notice a dark silhouette standing nearby. Fear hits...
Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of disaster the planet could throw...
He was eleven years old, standing in a public square with other children from his neighborhood. In front of them, a man was tied to a post while a firing squad raised...
There’s something approaching from the distance that you can’t stop. It can completely destroy cities and kill tens of thousands of people. It looks like...
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...
What if, instead of Trump or Biden becoming the next U.S. President, there was a third-party candidate? And that candidate was Elon Musk? What if Elon Musk became the...
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...
Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and frightening tools ever created by humanity. With over twelve thousand warheads spread across the globe, these devices hold...
Vicenta Pages grew up around circus animals and had spent most of her life learning how to work with some of the world’s most powerful predators. As a fifth...
What do you get when you mix the cuteness of a seal with the fierceness of a leopard? You get this adorable but dangerous predator. So the next time you go to...
Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy...
Brooklinn Khoury was 22 years old when a dog she had known for years suddenly attacked her without warning. She had been chatting with her cousin when the family pit...
