On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk was taking part in a major naval exercise in the Barents Sea when disaster struck. Two explosions tore through the...
This giant rock lights up the night and can even change colors. So what would we do without it?
Mohamedou Ould Slahi had never thought that going to the police would result in him spending years in one of the world’s most notorious prisons. When he was in...
For thirteen summers Timothy Treadwell went to Alaska and spent months living amongst wild grizzly bears. He named many of them, constantly spoke to them, and got so at...
Deep in the winding rivers of northern India and Nepal, researchers searching for one of the world’s most elusive reptiles made an incredible discovery. Gliding...
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...
Picture being able to do absolutely anything, painting a masterpiece in minutes, picking up a new language within hours, building a billion dollar company overnight...
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...
What if all the Earth’s land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, a massive gas giant so enormous that its gravitational influence reaches far beyond its distant orbit. Although it...
Communication is something humans often think we have mastered. We use languages, gestures, facial expressions, and technology to share information with each other. But...
MSN New, Cosmos
NASA’s Moon City Isn’t Science Fiction Anymore. Here’s What Living There Would Cost You
Everything you take for granted has a price on the Moon. Air is manufactured. Water is mined and recycled endlessly. Warmth is engineered. Even a walk outside requires...
Imagine you’re out for a walk on a lovely day, with not a care in the world. The birds are singing, and the sun is shining. Actually, the sun seems brighter than usual...
The core of Jupiter sits roughly 70,000 kilometers below the cloud tops, and nobody is ever getting there. Not a person. Not a spacecraft. Not anything humans have ever...
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Saying its name three times won’t have the same effect as a certain bio-exorcist, but it’s still a sight to behold. At about 950...
Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up...
The Arctic might soon become completely ice-free. And when all of the ice is gone, the world won’t be the same. But what if I told you there was a way to prevent...
Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the planet’s greatest mysteries. What would happen if every last piece of ice on the southern continent suddenly...
From the earliest moments of human imagination, the Moon has always been there. Hanging in the night sky, shaping tides, marking time, and quietly influencing life on...
MSN New, Humanity
Latin America Became One Country Overnight, and the U.S. Would Face a New Superpower
Latin America is divided among more than 20 independent countries and territories, each with its own government, economy, culture, and history. Yet for centuries...
