Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite.

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat ...

Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat ...

In 2015, John Bohannon, a science journalist and biologist, felt that reporters were at fault for bad science and the ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

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Convicts were detained in prison hulks moored at River Medway before being transported to Australia.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...