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      Earth, Humanity

      10 Things That Could Destroy Humanity in 2025?

      August 19, 2025
      Cosmos

      What If There Were an Alien Civilization on Proxima b?

      August 6, 2021
      Body

      What If You Didn’t Wash Your Hair for a Year?

      January 11, 2021
      Cosmos, Science

      What If We Discovered Alien Life?

      June 29, 2018
      Body

      What If You Held in Your Pee for a Week?

      March 16, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If the Great Attractor Swallowed Our Galaxy?

      These balls represent one of the strangest phenomena currently taking place in our Universe. Each ball symbolizes one of 100,000 galaxies — including our own...

      HTS MSN

      Gemini’s 2027 Prediction Is Scarier Than You Think

      You wake up in January 2027. Nothing feels wrong. No alerts. No breaking news screaming at you. Just another year starting like all the others. But underneath the...

      Humanity

      What If You Were the Last Human on Earth?

      For whatever reason, you are the last human on Earth. So what do you do? Eat like a king? Move into Buckingham Palace? Drive fast? Blow things up? Be naked all the time...

      Earth

      What If All Helium Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

      Birthday balloons falling limply to the ground. Satellites, medical scanners and TVs fading to black. And twinkling stars in the night sky disappearing one by one. All...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      18 Breathtaking Sunsets in the Universe

      The Universe is packed with worlds where sunsets don’t just fade into night, they bend the rules of physics. From double sunsets to glowing ice and strobing pulsars...

      Humanity

      What If Birds Were Actually Government Surveillance Drones?

      The next time you see that adorable hummingbird at your feeder, remember one thing. It might take your life. Because in this world, every bird works for the government...

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      The Most Cinematic Prison Escape in History

      On July 1, 2018, something happened outside Paris that sounded less like real life and more like a movie scene. Armed men hijacked a helicopter, flew it directly into a...

      MSN New, Technology

      The Robot Built to Cross Terrain No Machine Should Handle

      Robots have come a long way from simple machines that could only perform repetitive tasks. Today, engineers are creating advanced robots that can walk, climb, navigate...

      MSN New, Health

      What If You Ate Nothing but Chocolate for a Month?

      OK, if you’re like me, this is giving you some serious chocolate cravings. What if I told you that you could eat all the chocolate you want, for a whole month? The...

      MSN New

      China’s Artificial Moon: What It Could Mean for Life on Earth

      We can already build massive structures in space. Not planet sized yet, but still impressive by any historical standard. Right now, Earth’s lower orbit is crowded with...

      HTS MSN

      Why Playing Dead Would Never Actually Stop a Charging Elephant

      This safari incredible. You’ve seen lions, cheetahs, and other amazing wildlife. Your friends are going to love these photos. Suddenly, the ground starts shaking...

      MSN New, Earth

      We Drain a Giant Coral Atoll for More Living Space, and the Consequences Spread Worldwide

      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...

      Cosmos

      What If Another Sun Entered Our Solar System?

      With the vastness of the Universe, everything in it seems so spread out. But some objects are closer than you might realize. Every now and then, a random interstellar...

      HTS MSN

      Discover What Triggered This 90 kg Kangaroo to Launch a Deadly Attack

      In a quiet park near Melbourne, Australia, a normal morning jog turned into a terrifying fight for survival when a massive kangaroo suddenly attacked a woman without...

      Cosmos

      What If the Solar System Orbited a Black Hole?

      What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But...

      Cosmos

      7 Things That Would Happen If You Visited the Planet With Hot Ice

      Imagine landing on a planet where the surface looks frozen but burns hotter than your oven. Welcome to Gliese 436b, one of the strangest known planets in the universe...

      Earth

      What If You Were Attacked by a Megalodon?

      The most deadly predator of the sea spent its day conquering and terrorizing every creature in sight. This is the megalodon. It lived millions of years ago, but...

      Humanity

      Top 5 Events That Could End the World

      Our planet has survived the billions of years of catastrophic events that made it the world we live on now. But one day, there will be an event so disastrous that it...

      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

      We Haven’t Even Reached Type I. Here’s How Far Behind Humanity Really Is

      On a cosmic report card, humanity does not even earn a passing grade. There is a scale scientists use to measure how advanced a civilization truly is, and it has nothing...

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