Experimental Musings

There's been some interesting moon news recently (no, not the Halloween "Blue Moon") so we thought we'd have our astronomer tell us all about it.

Lots of adults spend the weeks leading up to Halloween watching the scary movies. Our resident historian gives us the rundown on some creepy characters featured in the films, as well as some modern science related to each.

News of a two-headed shark might sound like a scary movie being released for Halloween, but it's true!

With Halloween right around the corner, people are decorating with spider webs and lots of black. It seems fitting, then, that some space news about spider webs and black holes was released in October.

Chocolate is a healthful food, right? Maybe that’s what you’ve heard because there are hundreds of legitimate research studies that link chocolate and cocoa to positive health outcomes. But is there any truth to that?