A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

Some sci-fi movies completely ditch the idea of an enemy entity to instead focus on human ingenuity and the consequences of technology.

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

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 ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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 ...

Genetic engineering to produce crops that are pathogen resistant is an important strategy for world food security. Here, we engineered tomato-secreted immune protease C14 to become less sensitive to ...

In honor of FX’s Alien: Earth, here are 12 details of the Alien franchise a normal person wouldn’t know. Xenomorphs have been terrifying audiences for nearly half a century since the release of Ridley ...