Sandworms are gross-looking little things. Maybe a little bit cute. I almost feel bad using them as bait. What if instead of us hunting them, they were able to hunt us...
Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge promises about colonizing the red planet...
[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...
This is the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth. It stretches 11km (7 mi) down below sea level. But what if we made it even deeper? Get a giant drill because...
If you were just three times stronger than the world’s strongest person, you could lift a compact car. What else could you do? Or, not do? Would superhuman...
410 kilometers (254 miles) above the Earth. That’s where the International Space Station floats. What if you happened to be all the way up here but suddenly fell...
Let me take you on a wild ride to the very edges of our Universe. But it won’t be as simple as traveling through space. Because the edges that we’re talking...
What if you walked into your favorite fast food place, and instead of chicken and beef burgers, they only had Woolly Rhinoceros on the menu? Well, it might not sound...
Before we take the plunge, we could better take a look at what Lake Natron is made of. Much like the Dead Sea, this lake in Tanzania doesn’t run off into any...
Let’s face it. There are A LOT of us, and it’s getting more than a little crowded. Right now, there are over 7.7 billion people on Earth, and the United Nations predicts...
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...
Nearly 800 million light-years away, something has been forming. Scientists aren’t exactly sure what it is but have dubbed it ‘the black neutron star.’...
What if we weren’t the dominant species on this planet? What if we had to compete with every other species on Earth? We are outnumbered. We are surrounded. And our...
This shiny metal is constantly in a liquid state. This is mercury. We normally see this metal in tiny quantities. But what would happen if we took thousands of liters...
Imagine this a black hole, one of the universe’s most extreme objects, is hurtling straight toward Earth. Rather than waiting to be swallowed, humanity decides to fight...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] All of the systems, beliefs, emotions, and experiences that we call life are taking place on a tiny rock floating...
In some of the wealthiest corners of the world, the very rich are putting their money towards building underground bunkers to survive the apocalypse. These subterranean...
Flooding, devastation, and disease. What could all these awful things have in common? Rain. And lots of it. We’re not talking April showers here. So, imagine a...
Imagine being able to travel to any point in time. Where would you go, and what would you do? You could witness some of the greatest moments in history or even change...
What if instead of shining brightly for another 5 billion years, the only star in our Solar System turned into a dark and cold remnant? A black dwarf. How long...
