You hear endless myths about the Mazda RX-7, from breathless praise of its “magic” to horror stories about blown apex seals.

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

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 ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

In honor of FX’s Alien: Earth, here are 12 details of the Alien franchise a normal person wouldn’t know. Xenomorphs have been terrifying audiences for nearly half a century since the release of Ridley ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Manifold, the AI platform for life sciences, today announced an $18 million Series B funding round led by Reach Capital, with participation from SilverArc Capital, ...

Factory composite intakes are great for daily driving, but they can run out of breath when you really start spinning a Coyote engine. Holley is addressing that bottleneck with its new cast-aluminum Hi ...