March Madness: A High-stakes Game for Virtual Reality

If you're a fan of college basketball, you have a few ways to stay on top of March Madness, that weeks-long series of heart palpitations and bawled-over brackets otherwise known as the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament. See more

Why Soundtracks Love 'The Day of Wrath'

For decades, clever composers have woven elements of a particular medieval dirge into film soundtracks to convey a sense of dread, foreboding and general doom where the script calls for it. In the latest episode of The Soundtrack Show podcast, titled, Doom and Gloom: Music has a word for "Death," host David W. Collins discusses the significance of this particular composition and why it's so popular.See More

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Chimerism: You Can Be Your Own Twin

Taylor Muhl is a beautiful woman and a talented singer. She also happens to be a chimera, someone who carries two distinct sets of DNA, each with the genetic code to make a completely separate person. When Taylor Muhl, a California-based singer, asked a doctor to investigate the birthmark that demarcated the left side of her torso, she wondered what role the ruddy patch might play — if any — in a series of seemingly disparate health conditions she had experienced most of her life. See more >>