Are you religious? If you are, a huge part of your life is probably shaped by your beliefs and religious community. If you’re not, you might stare with bewilderment at...
While it might be nice to avoid any dangerous confrontations on your wilderness walks, life without wildlife would be pretty boring. If we didn’t have animals...
For more than half a century, rockets have been humanity’s ticket to space. They carried astronauts to the Moon, launched probes to the outer planets, and continue...
What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet...
On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth...
Why do solar panels look so different these days? And why have we started installing them on top of mountains, using them to pave our roads, and putting them in the...
If a family member calls you from jail panicking and says they need you to wire them some money for legal fees, would you second guess them and potentially make the...
Day X has arrived. Mount Fuji, Japan’s most famous volcano, is erupting for the first time in 300 years. It’s raining ash, lava and toxic gases down on the world’s...
Every six years in Japan, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to witness one of the world’s most dangerous religious festivals. Massive logs thunder down steep...
When people think of medieval monks, they often imagine silent figures living in isolated monasteries, spending their days praying and studying religious texts. But...
Would this be good or bad news?
It’s been 100 Earth years since you settled on Mars. You’ve been through pain, loneliness and a lot of hard work. And now Mars is the new promised land everyone...
You’re enjoying a cross-country drive, but you’re getting hungry. As you pull in for gas, you notice some sushi, and it looks delicious. So you buy some to...
A blizzard can turn an ordinary drive into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Heavy snowfall, strong winds, and near zero visibility make it almost impossible...
We can build really big things in space. Okay, not that big – yet. But we’ve packed the Earth’s lower orbit with about 5,000 satellites – some...
Beneath Antarctica’s endless white surface lies a world most people never think about. Under kilometers of solid ice, the continent hides a landscape shaped by fire...
One second you are out cold. The next, you’re on the operating table. In the middle of heart surgery. Welcome to your most terrifying nightmare. What happens when...
The Moon’s surface is covered in ancient scars, from asteroid impacts to long extinct volcanic activity. From a distance it looks quiet and empty, but beneath that dusty...
Scroll down to watch the video. It’s the largest star that we’ve ever discovered: UY Scuti. And if it were to replace our Sun, it would change a lot more...
Scroll down to watch the video. Deep beneath the thick layer of million-year-old ice, something is lurking quietly, waiting to rip through the rigid ice sheets. This...
