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What the if scientists were as famous as football stars, with packed bars roaring at a physicist getting destroyed by a rival's data?
A new gel stores energy from light, heat, and motion, so we imagine Goop-powered shirts, pourable radiation shields, and pure chaos.
What the if that pigeon on the wire is a government spy drone, recharging while it silently judges your life choices?
What the if antimatter showed up at your door like takeout? Order up the most explosive substance ever, and try not to touch it.
This week we turn the mic on each other, and Gaby, our Harvard microbiologist, takes the chair to share what her world is like.
What the if the internet ripped off everyone's mask and stapled your real name to every 2am hot take?
What if Lamarck was right, and every living thing is quietly remaking itself and the world around it?
What happens when people born on the Moon finally land on Earth and have to make sense of cows, gravity, and blue skies?
What the if we just pumped the last drop of gasoline? Your Twinkies, your shirts, and India's rice harvest all hang in the balance.
What the if YOU had to invent the alphabet from scratch? The Pharaoh's waiting and the chisel's in your hand.
What if your gut bacteria held a grudge? Spoiler: they fight dirty and they've got friends.
Join Matt and Philip on a cosmic rollercoaster as they navigate the universe's vast junkyard, exploring the dance of debris and pondering on space artifacts that might just land in your pocket!
Telepathy sounds chaotic — until you realize it might be the ultimate way to truly understand each other.
Caterpillars hack ant colonies with fake IDs and secret rhythms to crash nature's most exclusive fortress.
Atom-sized black holes might be flying through our solar system right now and making Mars wobble.
Gravity's taking a seven-second smoke break this August and honestly everything goes horribly wrong almost immediately.
The groundhog deep state has a space program, supercomputers, and fuzzy little bureaucrats running the weather.
What the if the most disgusting creature in the ocean is actually a survival genius — and could teach us a thing or two about defense, escape, and making a really, really big mess?
Map ancient lava flows on the moon from your couch and help solve mysteries billions of years old.
Dr. Robin Andrews takes us for a stroll on Jupiter's lava-spewing moon Io—galoshes required.
What the if you were biologically compelled to complete your New Year's resolution like a salmon swimming upstream?
Physicist Ian Durham stops by to explain why time reversal means your LEGO sets finally assemble themselves.
Santa's sleigh won't fly, but a reindeer dirigible with forty hovering mammals just might.
A green Sun turns pizzas black, kills all plants, and makes deep-sea microbes humanity's last hope.
What the if humans evolved into shrikes - those songbirds that impale their prey on thorns like tiny violent artists?
Ant queens birth two separate species. What if humans did too? Forget gender reveals - welcome to the species reveal party!
Mosquitoes can't resist this genetically engineered fungus, proving they have the same impulse control as humans at a dessert buffet.
Frankenstein's real horror isn't lightning or corpses but the medical bill for keeping mismatched body parts from rejecting each other.