Last year, ‘American Born Chinese’ author Gene Luen Yang began writing for the comic books. What he’s done with the ’80s ...

The first Star Trek pilot had a strange path to screen. The 1964 episode, “The Cage,” was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler. It followed Captain Christopher Pike, played by ...

Kevin Peter Hall, the original Predator, auditioned for both Data and La Forge on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," but didn’t land either role.

Expensive (gas fees drain budgets) Complex (requires deep technical expertise) Risky (upgradable contracts = security vulnerabilities) Manual (human error-prone processes) Slow (days or weeks to ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an ...

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers found that up to nine in ten cases could be linked to the APOE gene — even ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...