From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in CISCO Systems, Inc. v. Doe, announced on June 23, was not only, as expected, good news for corporations that facilitate government violations of international human ...

Before Hollywood made the gray alien famous, one alleged encounter helped define what people thought aliens looked like. Betty and Barney Hill claimed they were stopped on a rural New Hampshire road, ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Adapt or die: How do you grow and evolve to fit into an alien environment? How do you create change in the face of overwhelming power? And how do you tell your extraterrestrial overlords you need a ...

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When did “home” become embedded in human consciousness? Is our sense of home instinctive? Are we denning animals or nest builders, or are we, at root, nomadic? For much of the earliest history of our ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...