Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How ...

Life in Space” runs until September at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and is about the extreme conditions beyond Earth ...

Across Belfast, Dublin and Southport, the details differ, but the storyline is the same: a shocking crime, a suspect cast as alien or foreign, and then a rush to treat an isolated incident as a ...

From insects to great apes, by way of birds and fish, animals communicate through an extraordinary variety of sounds. While the pitch or timbre of their vocalizations matters, rhythm may play a more ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. It was love at ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language ...

Emily Blunt is many things: Oscar-caliber actress, action hero, shape-shifting chameleon of the screen. But one thing she is decidedly not, apparently, is a fan of artificial intelligence. In a candid ...