The very best satire comes from holding up a mirror to your intended audience and going, "Isn't this weird?" Who better to do that to all of humanity than a pair of aliens? Grik and Carl are sketch ...

EXPERTS have uncovered the disgusting experiments carried out almost 500 years ago to cure problems like baldness and ulcers on your privates. Among the ingredients are human poo, lizard heads ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a supercharged, head-eating anti hero like Venom? Or would you die a slow and painful ...

The campiest, gayest movie you’ll ever see, The Rocky Horror Picture Show stars Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who is an alien mad scientist and ”Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.” Tim Curry ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

The new spinoff Starfleet Academy has incorporated a kind of Klingon (cadet Jay-Den Kraag) we haven’t really seen much of onscreen: he doesn’t want to be a warrior. It’s an interesting idea on paper, ...

Dario Amodei warns that superhuman AI arriving within two years could trigger mass unemployment, bioterrorism and authoritarian control, unless humanity gets serious about the risks right now.

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

NASA’s unprecedented decision to prematurely end a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) because of a sick astronaut is shining a light on how the agency prepares for medical problems and ...

One year ago today, President Donald J. Trump returned to office with a resounding mandate to restore prosperity, secure the ...

The demonstrations, expected to continue through the weekend, came as the Justice Department said it would conduct a civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti.