What does wealth look like to you? Is it a hundred dollars? A thousand dollars? A million dollars? We can always go higher. But how much is too much? In...
Gravity, in the literal sense, keeps everyone (and everything) on Earth grounded. It acts as the anchor that prevents objects from floating skyward. For humans...
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...
A sudden reduction in size, shrinking by one centimeter per second, would expose a human to progressively smaller scales of the natural world, from ordinary objects to...
In today’s tech-savvy world, it’s all around you – an invisible world of electromagnetic signals and radio waves. Wi-Fi, or Wireless Fidelity, is responsible for...
Thousands of satellites and pieces of debris currently orbit our Earth. They provide us with television, internet, and communications. But what if all these satellites...
If you were going for a refreshing swim, the last thing you’d expect is to suffocate from toxic gases. But when it comes to Lake Kivu, this is one dangerous body...
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...
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...
What if all the coral reefs died out? What if we lost all of our coral reefs overnight? Ocean diving would become less impressive, that's for sure. But what about the...
What if in a stunning move, Russia, one of the largest energy producers on Earth, decided to cut itself off from the world? This heavily armed dictatorship has declared...
Located in the United States, one of the world’s largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It’s known as the Yellowstone Volcano, and it’s not just...
If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something...
Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally. You know how you were taught that a vacuum is nothing but empty space? That...
How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...
It’s about to get really hot down on Earth. Because all our oceans suddenly started to boil, sending steam into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. Why would all...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in...
Black holes are the gravitational monsters of the Universe. They are so powerful that nothing, even light, can escape their grasp. One black hole is bad enough. But if...
We might not be alone in the Universe. Scientists from all over the world have their eyes and ears wide open trying to detect signals of life beyond our planet. But...
Black holes aren’t exactly a popular vacation destination. They feed on anything and everything that comes into their vicinity. They are dense, and unpredictably...
