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Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Alien set a standard for the sci-fi horror genre, but in the years since, new TV mediums have put their own spin on the ...

For an interview on a Slate podcast this month, I was asked to pick a movie that exemplified 2025—not the year’s best film ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

Alien: Earth has endeavored to expand the Alien franchise’s lore into a compelling TV prequel series – and seems to be succeeding at it in a big way. However, the first two episodes of the show ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...