Mr. Block is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Homeschooled.” By my third year of home-schooling — in 1994, when I was 12 — Mom’s project of turning me back into an infant was nearly complete.

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

Ask someone in the weight room to point to their trapezius muscle, or “traps” in gym-speak, and they’ll probably gesture toward the small mounds of muscle nestled in between their neck and shoulders.