Unexplainable

A dog on its owner’s grave. A killer whale carrying around its dead calf. A goose that iso... more

When Wanda Diáz-Merced lost her sight as a college student, she thought her dreams of beco... more

A scientist asked people to sit in a silent room for 15 minutes. Almost half of them decid... more

Almost 15% of adults suffer from a persistent, often intolerable sound... that is literall... more

Just like optical illusions trick our eyes, audio illusions can trick our ears. It makes s... more

This week on Unexplainable or Not, Sally Helm, the newest member of our team, tries to fig... more

Now why would you click on something like this? What's wrong with you?! Why are you — and ... more

Killing two people is worse than killing one. What about 440 billion crustaceans? Adapted ... more

Think about the thing you’ve practiced more than anything else in the world. Maybe it’s pa... more

Terry Riley's  ["In C"] (https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/terry-riley-in-c)  is one o... more

Donald Trump and RFK Jr. seem convinced that it does. But our friends at  [Science Vs] (ht... more

Zombies might seem like the stuff of horror movies, but there are lots of examples of para... more

Who are you, really? Our friends at The Gray Area ask whether it's really possible to chan... more

The centuries-old international battle over the real sound of a musical note. Guest: Fanny... more

NASA found a Martian rock that might have traces of ancient life. It's perhaps the most ta... more

Recent research — and one surprising season of The Biggest Loser — has scientists wonderin... more

Join our friends at The Longest Shortest Time for a deep dive into the misunderstood world... more

How the bedtime stories we grew up with inspire the stories we tell now. For show transcri... more

We spoke to two researchers who disagree about the answer to this question. But they do ag... more

The US military carved a tiny city into the Greenland ice sheet. What they found, and lost... more

What do scientists think animals might be like millions of years from now? (First publishe... more

Dark energy is the strange stuff that makes up the vast majority of the universe and will ... more

Much of our modern world is made of plastic, but as more signs point to its dangers to hum... more

Towering walls of water sometimes appear in the ocean without warning or apparent cause. W... more

Good news can be hard to find, especially when our brains — and the media — are biased aga... more