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 ...

Some Fifth Circuit judges questioned the government’s claim that courts must defer to the president’s finding of an “invasion” by Venezuela. By Mattathias Schwartz Reporting on the federal judiciary A ...

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 theoretical approach suggests that the growing diversity of multimodal AI methods may be governed by a small set of underlying principles. By reframing how information is filtered and preserved ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, audio and video. One challenge slowing advances in multimodal AI, however, ...

Is 3I/ATLAS following its heart? Harvard scientist Avi Loeb believes that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of its artificial origins — potentially even pointing to ...

Alien: Earth promised something new when it first aired: a throwback to the original horror-sci-fi experience of the Alien movies, but remade for modern television. And overall, it did deliver, with ...

The job that takes me out of the house every morning (and funds my board gaming hobby) is ‘analytical chemist’. This means I spend my day running fancily named instruments and explaining to other ...

In space, nobody can hear you scream that ALIEN: Evolved Edition has finally come out, bringing with it a new era of sci-fi horror RPGs. And that’s not even mentioning the whole galaxy haunted by ...