The curious minds at What If explore what happens if giant insects never went extinct, revealing human survival challenges, ecosystems, and predation dynamics.

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to ...