The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of ...

This post contains major spoilers for Pluribus‘ eighth episode and some revelations about its hive mind/enjoined. If you don’t want to read them before watching, well, you don’t need seven billion ...

When Pluribus series creator Vince Gilligan said that his new Apple TV series wasn’t about AI, I called b*****. The body-snatching hive mind that takes over Earth was the perfect metaphor for the ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

What would you do if you discovered that aliens were real, and a lot closer than you’d imagined? Would you be awestruck or terrified? That’s the premise of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, and in ...

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 ...

Classified as post-apocalyptic science fiction, Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" does have mystery elements, particularly surrounding the alien virus that has transformed the rest of humanity. During a ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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