Unseen

Humans spend a lot of time and energy wondering if there’s anybody else out there. But what if we got unequivocal evidence that there was? In this week’s future, a probe that is extremely similar to t...

15 Sep 201517min

When you were a kid and stole your friends’ toys, your parent probably asked you this angry hypothetical: “How do you think that made them feel?” But what if you actually could feel what another perso...

8 Sep 201516min

What would happen if we rounded up all the critically endangered animals and plants and put them in armored zoos?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Sep 201517min

What does the world look like when everybody with a smart phone also has a drone?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Aug 201517min

What if “life in prison” could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are dolled out? What happens when a person gets out of prison?Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

11 Aug 201514min

If the Earth, somehow, stopped rotating around the sun, it would have exactly 64 1/2 days before it crashed into the fireball at the center of our solar system. Here's what would happen during those l...

4 Aug 201516min

Your face is one of your most valuable possessions. But what happens when facial recognition is so good that any company can grab an image of your face while you’re walking down the street, and link i...

28 Juli 201516min

What would happen if a company put up so many wind turbines that they actually changed the climate on Earth? I know this sounds totally crazy, but I swear to you this is something that scientists have...

21 Juli 201511min