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A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Every Fourth of July, there's one movie that I almost always end up watching, and that's Independence Day . I still remember ...

Just in time for a contentious 250th anniversary of the United States of America, historian David S. Reynolds' latest book, Two Ships, helps us realize that any country that couldn't agree on its own ...

The makers of the blockbusting sci-fi thriller reveal how they made a hit, why Kevin Spacey was almost involved and what went wrong with the sequel ...

A thoughtful look at whether empathy is fading in modern life. Trump reversed ICE traffic stop halt after criticism on cable news Woman is the only passenger on United flight, not prepared for what ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

Miami airport is getting in on the social media phenomenon that a self-proclaimed psychic hinted at for the Scotland and Brazil World Cup match. Last week, Vo Bahiana, a Brazilian spiritualist, told ...

Beijing wants to dominate and decarbonize global logistics by reinventing the shipping port to be self-fueling, modular, and replicable.

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

There’s something seductively audacious about the concept album. While most records aim simply to collect a dozen good songs, the concept album goes further – weaving tracks together with a narrative ...