What would happen if you dumped one of the world’s coldest liquids into the boiling, volatile mouth of a volcano? Would it freeze all of the lava inside? Could it...
Split every dollar on Earth evenly tomorrow morning, and the billionaires would start climbing back before the year was out. Not because of conspiracy. Because of...
1. The Great Red Spot Isn’t Alone Everyone has heard of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm so enormous it could swallow Earth whole. It has raged for centuries, fueled by...
For decades Rikers Island has been the subject of controversy because of overcrowding, violence, frequent staff shortages, abuse, medical neglect and deaths, all of...
They Fought Hand to Hand Because Guns Were Banned, and People Still Died on That Border
On that border, soldiers patrol without guns. Both sides agreed to it, a rule meant to stop a disagreement from becoming a shooting war. And in 2020, along the disputed...
Billions of years in the future, the Sun will begin to die. And this is what our planet would look like. But what if we turn things up a notch or two right now...
Dwight Turner thought he was paying for an unforgettable animal experience. Instead, he nearly lost his life. In August 2020, Turner paid for what was advertised as a...
Guantanamo Bay is not just a prison. It is a place that sits at the edge of law, geography, and morality, built on an idea that distance can change the rules. Located on...
Scroll down for the quiz! There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very quickly. I’ll...
The Northern Lights are one of the most amazing natural phenomena that you can experience in your life. But wait, you’re not alone. What is that big shadow in the...
Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally. You know how you were taught that a vacuum is nothing but empty space? That...
In 2020, when Kim Jong-Un disappeared for three weeks, the world went into full speculation mode. Was he ill? Dead? On a secret mission to binge-watch K-dramas? South...
For most runners, a mountain trail is a place to challenge yourself, escape the noise of everyday life and enjoy the scenery. But even familiar outdoor environments can...
Every human life begins the same way: inside a mother’s womb. Over the course of about 40 weeks, a single fertilized cell develops into a fully formed baby...
Somewhere in the 1700s, an artist drew a giant spider devouring a hummingbird. That single illustration gave the animal its name, and the name has been misleading people...
Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up...
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...
With Earth’s geopolitical tensions on the rise, the possibility of a global conflict is becoming more than just a distant threat. But in the modern era, a future world...
Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight toward us? This nightmare scenario would...
The night sky looks empty. It isn’t. There are thousands of satellites up there right now, along with a great deal of debris, and almost none of us give them a...

