The mockumentary is an underrated genre of comedy, but this classic sci-fi one still holds up today through its sharp writing ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

The court upheld state laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring the participation of transgender female athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams.

Truly overpowered female characters in anime are few and far between, but these five indomitable heroines stand firm as ...

But, if a robot needs more brainpower, it can draw it from a local server via Wi-Fi. A robot’s A.I., like most computer ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

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