Test your inner synesthesia. By Stephen E. Palmer.

Seventy years ago, the flash of a nuclear bomb illuminated the skies over Alamogordo, New Mexico. What did it look like? By Alex Wellerstein.

Migraines, 3D magic, and an unlikely correspondence from one “incredibly stereoscopic person” to another. By David Friedman.

A rare condition causes Joel Salinas to experience other people's emotions and sensations. Is mirror-touch synesthesia a superpower or a curse?

A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia. By Kristen Weir.

Astrophysicist Adam Frank reflects on the fact that while many of his questions for the universe can be answered, some are beyond him now — and may remain so for the rest of his life.

One day, a man saw time itself stop, and as David Robson discovers, unpicking what happened is revealing that we can all experience temporal trickery too. (2014)

For decades people have reported seeing an ape-man roaming the snowy wastes of the Himalayas. Is there any truth to the tales?

With fur on its tail and twice the size of a human being, no one yet knows what the animal is.

Over the last couple of centuries, many individuals have claimed to visit other planets through astral projection or through secret, possibly alien, technology. Since the 1970s, most alien stories have been about small gray men abducting humans but usually staying on Earth, which seems a pity...

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. Wheeler's experiment then asks - at which point does the object decide?

Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive Dialogue on the Nature of Science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. During the second month, June, the focus will be on mental action at a distance.

When Leanne Wijnsma digs a tunnel, it needs to be in a public place. She marks the spot where it will begin and the spot where it will end, and she begins....

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” - John Lennon

A fracking boomtown, a spike in stillborn deaths and a gusher of unanswered questions.

Sea monsters are the stuff of legend - lurking not just in the depths of the oceans, but also the darker corners of our minds. Why are we drawn to these creatures, asks Mary Colwell.

Ghost and UFO sightings are down. Psychics are in decline. Are we more discerning now, or just afraid to trust anything?

It is possible that our subconscious mind somehow “sees” events 1 to 10 seconds in the future. Before we are consciously aware of an event, our bodies...

Members of the multiplicity community insist that they're healthy, happy, and even normal—they just have up to hundreds of personalities contained within one body.

They called it “Angel’s Glow.”