Ralph Mathieu is the owner of the comic book store Alternate Reality Comics in Las Vegas, Nevada. His store has been around for many more years than mine, and he has far more experience than I do.

Conspiracies have been a force in American politics for a long time now. NPR's Embedded has a new series out looking at the way they've divided one family. Last year, reporter Zach Mack's father ...

Quantum immortality is a controversial and fascinating concept that emerges from the interpretations of quantum mechanics, suggesting that consciousness could survive beyond physical death in an ...

After we released Alternate Realities, hundreds of listeners reached out, sharing stories about friends and family members who had also fallen under the spell of conspiracy theories. Many of them had ...

Episode 2: After reporter Zach Mack accepts a bet with his father over 10 politically apocalyptic predictions, he sets out on a journey to change... Alternate Realities: Down the Rabbit Hole After ...

Episode 1: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being... Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet Reporter Zach Mack thinks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. has always been a place where reality sometimes feels stranger than fiction—a melting pot of cultures, technologies, and ...