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      Cosmos

      What If You Traveled to the Hell Planet?

      January 15, 2021
      Body

      What If You Could Shapeshift?

      March 5, 2020
      MSN New, Earth

      What If We Are Not the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?

      1 week ago
      Body

      What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen?

      July 17, 2019
      Earth

      What If Styxosaurus Was Alive?

      June 6, 2022
      MSN New, Earth

      We Painted Earth White, and It Could Actually Cool the Planet

      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...

      Earth, MSN New

      Scientists Discovered a Rare Animal That May Hold the Key to Human Regeneration

      This pink, permanently smiling creature might look like something out of a cartoon, but it is very real. Known as the axolotl, this unusual animal has captured the...

      HTS MSN

      How to Stay Alive as the Last Person Left on Earth

      You wake up one morning and something feels wrong. The usual sounds of traffic outside your window are gone. There are no voices, no footsteps, and no signs of everyday...

      Science

      What If All Bees Went Extinct?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Food is scarce. Money is worthless. Riots are everywhere. The world is in chaos. This isn’t our past...

      HTS MSN

      How I Survived an Acid Attack (The Katie Piper Story)

      Just one second after a stranger approached her on a London street, Katie Piper’s life changed forever. The 25 year old model and television presenter had been...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      You Just Landed on Kepler 186 f, and the Red Sky Is Only the Beginning

      Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The sky glows dim red instead of blue. Strange plants sway in the cold wind...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Plan to Turn Mars Into Humanity’s Next Home

      The next step in space exploration isn’t waiting for some distant generation. It’s being planned right now, and the destination is the desolate world sitting...

      Science

      What If You Could Swim in Titan’s Lakes?

      [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...

      Humanity, MSN New, Technology

      What If NASA Had the U.S. Military’s Budget?

      They sent humans to walk on the Moon, flew by every single planet in our Solar System, delivered the first residents to the International Space Station… What else could...

      Earth

      6 Surprising Things You Would Discover If You Traveled to the Cambrian Period

      Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Humanity Just Learned to Harness the Full Power of the Sun, and Here’s What Changed

      For thousands of years, humanity has depended on energy to build civilizations, develop technology, and improve the way we live. From burning wood in ancient times to...

      HTS MSN

      Solitary Confinement: What It Really Does to the Human Mind

      Being locked up is already difficult. But then you are moved even further away from everyone else, into a prison within a prison. A cold, small room becomes your entire...

      HTS MSN

      Gyorgy Dozsa Led Thousands Into Battle, and His Captors Prepared a Horrific Execution

      Gyorgy Dozsa was a soldier who became the leader of a massive peasant uprising in Hungary during the early 1500s. He had earned a reputation for bravery during wars...

      HTS MSN

      Two Tornadoes Are Closing In at Once, So Now What?

      You look outside and see something terrifying. A massive tornado is moving toward you, and you know you need to find shelter immediately. Then, just when you think...

      MSN New, Earth

      Mushrooms Taller Than Trees Once Covered the Earth, and Here’s What Happened

      Yet over time, they disappeared and evolved into the smaller versions we know and love today. But what if we found a way to bring them back? Why did giant mushrooms go...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Black Hole Deleted the Universe, and Everything We Know About Physics Was Wrong

      They are massive, and extremely dense. They rip apart anything and everything that gets close to them. Their gravity is so strong that even light can’t escape. We...

      MSN New, Humanity

      AI Just Replaced Every Teacher on Earth, and Here’s What Classrooms Became

      Imagine walking into a classroom where there is no teacher standing at the front of the room. Instead, every student is guided by an artificial intelligence system that...

      MSN New

      What If You Lived to See the End of Everything We Know?

      Billions of years from now, the Sun will enter the final stage of its life. It will swell into a massive red giant before eventually shrinking into a stellar remnant...

      Science

      What If There Were Ads in Space?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Imagine, instead of looking up and seeing the stars, you see something like this: Coca-Cola ads are seen on...

      Cosmos

      Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth

      Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be...

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