Hang on because we’re about to screech to a halt. That’s right. The Earth is going to stop spinning for five seconds. How much damage would this sudden stoppage cause...
A scorching hot never-ending day on one side and a permanent frozen night on the other. This is what our planet would be like if it was tidally locked to the Sun. How...
Parasites are creatures that need a host organism to feed on, survive in and sometimes reproduce inside. And guess what? The human body is a favorite neighborhood for...
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...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone...
13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe emerged from one single point in space. This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the...
Imagine having the ability to live forever, travel anywhere in the universe, and harness enough power to create wormholes. Well, if you’re part of the ultra...
No matter how experienced a driver you think you are, whether it’s nearly blinding fog or strong winds pushing your car off unfinished roads, some bridges are...
The ocean is one of the least explored places on Earth, yet it is home to some of the most incredible life forms ever discovered. From deep sea predators to massive...
Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions...
One day, we want to take humanity into space. But why don’t we start small? Take one solar power station, 10,000 people, and 10 million tons of crumbled Moon rock...
If you could, would you live on the Moon? Not as one of the courageous early settlers, but as a citizen of a fully-functioning Moon city. What would they be built out of...
Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but on the...
Grizzly bears are a North American subspecies of brown bears. And it’s scary that brown bear attacks are increasing all over the planet. Between 2000 and 2015, there...
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...
Nearly 800 million light years away, astronomers detected something that should not fit neatly into the known categories of the universe. The mysterious object had a...
In 2018, a British woman named Holly spent a day in the sun in Tenerife, Spain. That evening she noticed her face beginning to swell, so she did the most natural thing...
Sixty five million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth and ended the age of the dinosaurs. But what if that never happened? What if dinosaurs had continued...
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A Black Hole May Be Hiding at the Edge of Our Solar System, and Nothing That Falls In Comes Back
Something out past Neptune is bending the orbits of everything around it. Astronomers can see the effect clearly enough. What they cannot see is the cause, and one of...
Under extreme circumstances, humans can often pull together to overcome great odds. But when confined in a tight space with each other, well, we may not be at our finest...
