A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Texas lawmakers heard competing approaches Thursday for how to combat the New World screwworm, as federal officials defended ...

Game, SETI, match.

A lot of money and engineering time has been invested in transporting humans to the red planet, including more than $15 billion on Starship development. Musk envisions a flotilla of several thousand ...

In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

It wasn't quite an out-of-this-world debut, but Disclosure Day still took #1 at the box office this weekend with $44 ...

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