Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

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The ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ franchises have gripped me with their mix of terror, action, and cosmic mystery for decades. From xenomorphs stalking spaceship corridors to Yautja hunting across worlds, ...

Scientists blast the idea that consciousness is confined to human or animal brains in a provocative new paper published this week, arguing that minds could exist in alien life and even advanced ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

A hospital policy of giving high transfusion-risk patients tranexamic acid for noncardiac surgery reduced blood transfusions without increasing thromboembolic risk, the TRACTION randomized trial ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In ...