If that sounds extremely and alienatingly geeky to you, consider the testimony of New York Times reader Janiece Mulia, who ...

Frank and Gloria did everything right. They took their finances seriously — saved money, earned an education, and put their kids through school. But now, retired from their careers as teachers, they ...

Frylock says he has invented an extraordinary toilet which uses little or no water. He gives the (as yet untested) toilet to Carl, and leaves it in Carl's front yard. Skeptical about the toilet, Carl ...

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 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 ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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 ...

Two pro-Palestinian activists ended their hunger strikes Wednesday, marking the conclusion of an action believed to be among the longest in UK history. Muraisi, 31 and Ahmed, 28, began their hunger ...

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 ...