Starfleet Academy, the latest Star Trek spinoff, has proven to be controversial for many reasons. One of them is the use of profanity-laced modern language, all of which sounds wildly jarring coming ...

Commentary: The high-profile Hollywood director created a studio dedicated to creating a "new cinematic grammar" built around AI. This is not a good start.

Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal report on discussions between U.S. lawmakers and Brazilian witnesses marking the thirtieth anniversary of the "Varginha UFO Incident." ...

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A species of rarely seen since its discovery in the late 19th century, the goblin shark recently turned up in Spanish waters.

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

Everyone from the Prime Minister to newspaper columnists have advised kids to “read a book” since the social media ban came into effect.

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he’s especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it’s actually been 20 years since the director of E.T. and Close ...

I’ve had to do a few foreign language interviews in my time as a journalist, in which I’ve sent off questions via email in English and received answers back in a language that I don’t speak. There are ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...