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What is the most important step that humanity must take to avoid extinction? According to the late physicist Stephen Hawking, the answer lies far beyond Earth. One of his most striking warnings ...

UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual seekers in Los Angeles each year. But in the conference’s 24th year, ...

Burton is the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History at Clemson University. He is the author of more than 20 authored or edited books, including his most recent, “Justice Deferred: Race ...

A violent, almost demonic alien race called the Furies first appeared in a series of Star Trek crossover novels published in 1996. Titled Star Trek: Invasion!, these four novels spanned the 23rd and ...

Professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have nixed plans to participate in history lectures on racism and racial equity, due to censorship concerns, the Arkansas Times reported. The ...

This story has been updated to include a comment from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Politically based firings, new laws dictating what topics can be taught, andforced displays of ...

Nearly 25 years ago, the original Metroid Prime set the modern standard for wintry video game biomes with Phendrana Drifts. The icy level plays a key part in Samus’ adventure, not just housing handy ...

It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...

Hailee Steinfeld and her “Sinners” co-star Michael B. Jordan shared the kind of on-set conversations you can only have while making a horror movie. While filming, one of their frequent debates was ...

Bella Shepard acknowledged it was “scary” to be the first actress to portray a representative of a new alien race on “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.” “I didn’t really know what to expect when I learned ...