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...
About 90 million years ago, Antarctica was not the frozen desert we know today. It was a warm, swampy world filled with dense forests, where ancient plants thrived under...
In the center of our Solar System, there is a ticking bomb. And when it explodes, it will end all life on Earth. That ticking bomb is our Sun. Like all the stars in the...
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The Blast Is Survivable, the Fallout Arriving Minutes Later Is What Gets Most People
You survived the flash. You survived the shockwave. You are standing miles from the blast, dazed but alive. You now have minutes, not hours, before the thing that...
Welcome to the Solar System construction zone. Today you’ll be using our cosmic sandbox to build a brand new planet. What would you need to create a rocky planet like...
What would happen if you took the most energetic explosion in the Universe and sent it straight into one of the most powerful gravitational objects ever discovered? On...
Asteroids are rocky leftovers from the early formation of our planetary neighborhood. And of the over one million that we know of, most orbit the Sun in the asteroid...
Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature in the Universe. Nothing gets colder than that. So if the entire Earth suddenly cooled down to the most frigid...
Sulfur hexafluoride, now that’s a mouthful. It sure is! It’s more commonly known as SF6 or deep voice gas because, well, it makes your voice deeper! But...
On Christmas Day in 2007, while families around the world were celebrating the holidays, a terrifying event was unfolding at the San Francisco Zoo. Around 5 p.m., 17...
The sound was described by witnesses as loud and chaotic, a sudden eruption that cut through what was meant to be a carefully controlled stage performance. On October...
Alcoholic drinks are amongst the most widely consumed beverages in the world; although some people take them because of their flavour and others because of the...
Alright, I think it’s time for a change-up. Let’s do a little spring cleaning, and redecorate our Solar System. Now, I know you’re a big fan of the Moon, but it’s so...
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The Nearest Star Would Be Close Enough to Reach, but There May Be No Metal to Build With
Imagine a night sky where the nearest star is close enough to actually visit. Not 4.37 light years away like Proxima Centauri, but a short hop by cosmic standards, one...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] What if…. you could swim in Titan’s lakes? Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is unique. It has its own...
Imagine a white picket fence around a white house, with a white driveway and a white car. And it’s not just your house that’s white. It’s also the road...
Deep frying a turkey can already be risky enough. Every year, kitchen fires and oil explosions send people running for cover during holiday dinners. But what if we tried...
The Holocaust is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. It remains a defining example of systematic mass violence, and its impact is still studied and...
Black Dolphin is famous for its extreme security, but the prison is only one part of a much larger system. Behind Russia’s prison walls, a long history of harsh...
What if you actually did see dead people? Not in a Sixth Sense kind of way, but in an ‘inexplicable mass resurrection’ kind of way? Not in a Walking Dead...
