Across several rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority either outright overruled, or else functionally gutted ...

Only at the precipice do we evolve.” Those words, spoken by Professor Barnhardt in The Day the Earth Stood Still, capture one ...

Delegations of Jewish athletes from a record 43 countries entered a packed Teddy Stadium the evening of July 1 to cheers from ...

The AAUP and Texas AAUP-AFT sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda that stifled debate, undermined students’ ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

A federal filing shows President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, locking in ...

Here's a question that sounds like science fiction but is being asked in deadly earnest by serious philosophers. Does consciousness require flesh and blood? It's a question I wrestled with myself when ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens go back a long time – they're the cinematic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. And the history of that successful pairing has led to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Oliva recommended six books in which the presence of aliens prompts readers to think more ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...