Discover the Japanese anime and manga that secretly inspired some of Hollywood's biggest movies, from The Lion King to The ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

One oddity is in how human hierarchies form. In other animals, fighting translates physical strength into dominance. In humans, however, people often happily defer to leaders, even seeking them out.

Spider-Man’s rogues’ gallery is known for its outrageous powers, but some of his most interesting villains don’t need ...

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

For the first time, a Mars rover has crossed alien ground following a route drawn up not by human engineers, but by artificial intelligence. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently completed a set of ...

Time travel has fascinated humanity for decades, but a recent revelation has sparked fresh global curiosity. Anil Chaturvedi brings forward a shocking mystery that challenges our understanding of time ...

The campiest, gayest movie you’ll ever see, The Rocky Horror Picture Show stars Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who is an alien mad scientist and ”Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.” Tim Curry ...

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 ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

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 ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...