What if you could shrink yourself down to the size of 1 mm (0.04 in), about the size of a frog’s egg? Actually no, there too many creepy crawly predators, so let’s go smaller. What if you shrunk to 10 micrometers (0.0004 in), the size of an animal cell? That’s […]
Located in the United States, one of the world’s largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It’s known as the Yellowstone Volcano, and it’s not just any regular volcano. Instead, it’s a supervolcano! If Yellowstone decided to erupt, the results would be devastating. But just how bad would they be? […]
No one knows exactly what to expect if we encountered other forms of alien life. Would they talk like us? Look like us? Or would they be completely different? “What if, instead of encountering organic alien life, we met alien artificial intelligence?” This episode was produced in collaboration with Isaac […]
Since its discovery in 1610 by Galileo, the rings of Saturn have enchanted us for centuries. Remarkably, we’ve visited Saturn before. Stunning photographs taken from the Cassini space probe have revealed that Saturn’s rings are much more complex than you might think. So what would it be like to actually […]
Deep in the jungle, there’s a fungus that infects creatures, and turns them into zombies. This deadly fungus, known as Cordyceps, has the ability to take out entire species. What if this fungus infected you, by touching your skin, or just by breathing it in? Could the Cordyceps fungus turn […]
Care to take a tour inside your own body? No, I don’t suggest you do capsule endoscopy, you know, the one that takes pictures inside your digestive tract. Or an x-ray. Let’s take the most sophisticated, hypothetical tour, where you would be your own guide. Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-we-could-look-inside-our-bodies/ Subscribe […]
Let’s roll back a few days. This is CERN, the Nuclear Research laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland. It features the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of […]
Dive deeper and watch our interview with the co-author of the seminal paper in Nature Astronomy, MIT’s Professor Sara Seager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Z6yX8F_oA Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered there could be […]
Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it’s something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks are hurtling toward Earth. Could this wipe us off the face of the planet? How could […]
If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something mesmerizing about it. A flat Earth solar eclipse. Diagonally growing trees. The great wall of ice, guarded by NASA, […]
