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      What If Companies Had to Pay to Pollute the Planet?

      December 13, 2018
      Humanity, Cosmos, Earth

      The Kardashev Scale Explained: From Type 1 to Type 7

      11 months ago
      Cosmos

      What If an Asteroid Cracked the Moon in Half?

      July 14, 2022
      Earth

      What If Two Hurricanes Collided?

      May 29, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If You Traveled Through a Black Hole?

      December 2, 2022
      Cosmos

      14 of the Most Terrifying Planets in the Universe

      The universe is full of wonders, but some worlds are downright deadly. From searing heat to violent storms, these planets make Earth look like a paradise. Many of them...

      MSN New

      Could Life on Mars Already Exist Beneath the Surface?

      Just north of Mars’ equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater known as Jezero Crater. Scientists believe this location may have once held an ancient lake, making...

      Earth, MSN New

      Imagine If We Drilled a Hole at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

      In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation...

      Earth

      What If Tardigrades Were the Size of Humans?

      They can endure the cold reaches of space. Go without food or water for up to 30 years. And are nearly indestructible. But they’re, like, really tiny. So, there’s not a...

      Humanity

      What If All People on Earth Lived in the Same Skyscraper?

      With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing every single person on Earth in one giant...

      Cosmos

      What If We Sent Our Trash Into the Sun?

      Welcome to your new landfill: a giant ball of burning gas that we call the Sun. With surface temperatures of 5500°C (9,940°F), it could obliterate any type of trash we...

      Science

      What If We Had Working Warp Drive Technology?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] If you could travel faster than the speed of light, where would you go? Mars? The nearest star system Alpha Centauri...

      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...

      Cosmos, MSN, MSN New

      The True Scale of the Largest Objects in the Universe

      Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Humanity Moved to an Exoplanet?

      An exoplanet is a planet outside our Solar System. As of March 2020, we’ve discovered over 4000 different ones. So, it sounds like we have some options for our...

      Cosmos

      What If We Could See Through a Black Hole?

      This star is about to transform into a black hole. And we’re about to travel inside it to see what’s on the other side. The only problem is that we’ll...

      DailyMoment, Earth, MSN, MSN New

      Earth Day: What If Earth Lost All Its Coral Reefs?

      How many sea animals would face extinction? Could the corals rebuild themselves from scratch? How would this massive die-off affect humanity? Corals are not rocks. They...

      Humanity, MSN New

      The Entire History of Human Evolution Explained

      Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      What If You Were as Rich as Jeff Bezos?

      As the CEO and founder of Amazon, the multibillion dollar online shopping company, Jeff Bezos is the richest person on the planet. With a current net worth of $270...

      Humanity

      What If Ancient Life Escaped Earth?

      In 7.5 billion years, the Sun will expand and engulf our planet, destroying all life as we know it. Of course, a mass extinction on Earth could happen much sooner than...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Find Out How Life on Mars Looked 1 Billion Years Ago

      THE BEGINNING – 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this stage is called the Pre Noachian era. Mars had just formed from dust and gas inside the early solar disk, the...

      Earth

      What If We Poured Concrete Into a Volcano?

      If only there were a simple trick to stop a massive volcano from spewing out lava. Like maybe plugging it up with good old concrete. A massive volcanic explosion sends...

      HTS MSN

      Inside the Most Complex Cave Rescue in History: The Thai Cave Story

      On June 23, 2018, twelve boys from a youth soccer team known as the Wild Boars and their assistant coach entered Thailand’s Tham Luang cave system after soccer practice...

      Earth

      What If You Went Surfing on a Tsunami?

      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...

      Cosmos

      What If A Rogue Planet Entered Our Solar System?

      Unlike Earth, which is orbiting the Sun, there are billions of rogue planets roaming the Milky Way not bound to any host star. One of them has been spotted on the edge...

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