People are innately curious. Think back to when you were a child and constantly asking “why.” “Why is the sky blue?” “Why is the grass green?” Asking “why” is a child’s way of learning and forming ...

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In The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce describes the mind as "a mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain," engaged in a futile attempt to understand itself "with nothing but itself to know ...

Jupiter and Saturn came together in a “Great Conjunction” in 2020 that was unlike any seen in nearly 800 years. The two planets appeared so close together in Earth’s night sky on the winter solstice ...

Science Friday’s Science Club is an invitation to go out, do science, and share it with others. For this science club, we’re mixing up how SciFri normally works. We want you to explain something to us ...

In our never-ending quest to understand what happens to us after we die, humans have long seen the rare phenomenon of near-death experiences as providing some hints. People who’ve had a brush with ...