The Man Who Saved the World: The Stanislav Petrov Incident
On September 26, 1983, the world was exactly 20 minutes away from total nuclear annihilation. Inside a secret Soviet bunker, the early warning system screamed...
On September 26, 1983, the world was exactly 20 minutes away from total nuclear annihilation. Inside a secret Soviet bunker, the early warning system screamed...
The deepest hole on Earth was sealed for a reason. ๐ Scientists drilled 12km down and found things that shouldn’t exist. Deep beneath the frozen...
The photos coming out of Greece and Crete look like they were taken on Mars. But this ‘Redout’ is a real-world atmospheric glitch driven by...
The sky over Europe just turned red. Not a little pink at sunset โ fully, deeply, hauntingly red. Cities across the Mediterranean looked like they...
The deep sea has no rules and no room for mistakes. When a male Anglerfish finds a mate, he doesn’t just stay with herโhe dissolves...
Some doors are kept locked for a reason. From the deadly Snake Island in Brazil to the secret Doomsday Vault in the Arctic, we explore...
Deep beneath our feet, the Earthโs engine is shifting. โIn 1906, Bernard Brunhes discovered a “glitch” in ancient lava: the North and South poles have...
Deep in the Indian Ocean, there is an island where the modern world does not exist. โThe Sentinelese people have lived in total isolation for...
For thousands of years, humans believed the solar system ended at Saturn. โOn a cold night in 1781, William Herschel noticed a star that was...
In 1963, astronomer Maarten Schmidt looked at a star called 3C 273 and saw a glitch. โIt was moving too fast and was too bright...