Remember that first time you walked out of a theater thinking, “Well, I guess movies can now do just about anything?” For ...

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Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...

Artificial intelligence is widely used not only to personify amusing animals, but also for much more dangerous activities.

" The avatar of the unwitting Dr Read appeared in a new wave of Russia-linked synthetic videos that swept across social media over the past months, raising concern among security experts that the West ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Long before Sputnik launched, something else may have already been orbiting Earth. Known as the Black Knight Satellite, this mysterious object has sparked theories of alien observation, ancient ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...