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Stories of near-death experiences are not uncommon, but science generally dismisses them as tricks of the brain. But is dying really the end of consciousness?

With the snowy months coming to a close, the question on many Utahns mind is: Will our winter snowpack pull us out of the drought?

The FX adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s 2003 book Under the Banner of Heaven premiers on Hulu this week, and we’re talking about it with its creator, Dustin Lance Black.

In September of 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disfellowshipped six academically-minded members, including former BYU professor and historian Michael Quinn.

The city of Jerusalem is widely thought of as the gateway to heaven. And yet, as the journalist Andrew Lawler reveals in a new book, what lay below the Holy City is almost as intriguing as what many believe awaits above it.

Utah is the epicenter of the so-called “troubled-teen” industry, with many programs seeing thousands of young people pass through their doors. And yet, for as many people as this industry has served, until recently, it had little-to-no government oversight.

In the 1970s, a Brigham Young University graduate student named Max Ford McBride conducted an experiment. The goal? To cure homosexuality with shock therapy.

Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, has born first-hand witness to the ravages of Alzheimer's. She says the way we think and talk about the disease often only adds to the pain and suffering.

Think of a performance in film or theater that captured you — a portrayal so engrossing that actor and character seemed to become one. How does that happen?

Suffering from a gynecological infection, the science journalist Rachel E. Gross did what she does best: She researched. She wanted to know how the vagina works. But she soon ran into the big problem of how little we actually know about the female body.