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Aliens: Dark Descent is the best PS5 game you’re not playing right now
I always get a little nervous when a new Aliens game is announced. The Alien Universe is very close to my heart, but the franchise is far from immune to disappointing video game adaptions.…
‘When I see top players like Roger and Novak…’: Daniil Medvedev’s…
Wimbledon has been the toughest tournament for much of the ATP tour to find any sort of success in. No man outside of the ‘Big 4’ of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, or Rafael…
Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ Is a Witty Take on ‘Alien Outsiders’
While sci-fi has frequently explored fears of outsiders perceived as threats, there’s room for a more lighthearted take on aliens as well. That’s rarer, but not unprecedented, at least on…
UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that no money can be spent on SAP’s unless it's been reported…
The Race Is On to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal From Aliens
Humanity has sent its own simple outgoing messages, like Frank Drake’s message from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to the globular cluster M13, which included information about our…
What Would It Take to Imagine a Truly Alien Alien?
But it’s not only bats and aliens—fictional or optimistically imagined—who brandish subjective experiences we cannot understand. Nagel cites his own inability to understand “the subjective…
Too Cute Crisis: A sci-fi comedy anime where aliens meet adorable animals
A universe is a vast place, and Earth is just a small speck in it. However, what if an alien race comes to Earth and decides its fate? This is the premise of Too Cute Crisis Episode 1, a…
Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
The tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science. Previously, people who had seen strange lights darting around the sky could do no more than tell their friends—or…
Review: COVID-19 gets the horror treatment in “Sick”; “Kids vs.…
‘Sick’
Set during the early days of the pandemic, the taut slasher picture “Sick” uses the fear and paranoia of mid-2020 to clever effect. Co-written by Katelyn Crabb and “Scream” mastermind…