Overnight, our planet has gone from a pale blue dot to a glistening white snowglobe. Stretches of Earth have become frozen wastelands that are completely inhospitable...
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...
Tyrannosaurus Rex. King of the tyrant lizards. It’s 6 meters tall (20 feet), 12 meters (40 feet) long, and it weighs upward of seven tons. You can hide from it...
At first glance, it looks like something is wrong. A strange, floating slab of flesh rises beside a fishing boat, as if the rest of the animal is missing. But this is...
Interstellar objects occasionally enter our Solar System, providing insight into the composition and dynamics of distant regions of the galaxy. Among these objects, the...
With every rocket we launch into the Earth’s orbit, we’re trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending rockets into space put an end to...
You are walking along a quiet trail when something suddenly moves inside the bushes. There is barely any wind, so the rustling immediately catches your attention. Then...
By the year 2035, NASA plans to send humans to Mars. But it would be about a nine-month trip with our current rocket technology. However, in the not-so-distant future...
Imagine this a black hole, one of the universe’s most extreme objects, is hurtling straight toward Earth. Rather than waiting to be swallowed, humanity decides to fight...
A blizzard can turn an ordinary drive into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Heavy snowfall, strong winds, and near zero visibility make it almost impossible...
What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars. Mars often comes to mind as a close option but...
MSN New, Earth
A Tornado Over an Erupting Supervolcano Would Rain Fire and Molten Rock, and No One Could Outrun It
A tornado already flings debris up to 65 kilometers from where it forms. Now change what it is picking up. Instead of roof tiles and fence posts, imagine molten rock...
You’ve accidentally stumbled onto an old minefield. Surrounded by land mines buried somewhere in the ground, you don’t know where to step. One wrong move and...
Stars with a much larger mass than our Sun burn out after just a few million years; in a gigantic explosion known as a supernova. Moving at the speed of light, millions...
MSN New, Humanity
AI Is Learning Your Weaknesses, Your Fears, and Your Desires, Then Comes the Real Problem
Artificial intelligence is getting better at understanding people every year. It recommends the movies we watch, the products we buy, and even the music we listen to...
On August 17, 1996, the Delventhal family, a family of five from Pittsburgh, was reaching the end of their nine day canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Canada. After setting...
For centuries, it looked like nothing but jungle. Dense Guatemalan rainforest stretching in every direction, hiding what turned out to be one of the largest ancient...
It was supposed to be the ultimate waterslide experience. Towering 52 meters, or about 170 feet, above the ground, the attraction promised riders an extreme journey...
You’d love to have that healthy, sun-kissed tan all year round. But too much sun and you could get a nasty sunburn or even skin cancer. Spray tanning sounds like a way...
The Amazon is a huge and highly unexplored territory, five times larger than the state of Texas. 10% of Earth’s wildlife we know about inhabits this jungle. And if...
