Ivarr and his brother Ubba ravaged England during the 9th Century [The British Library] A mound of earth in west Cumbria could contain a lost Viking king called Ivarr the Boneless, an archaeologist ...

In that couplet Pope was responding to a long-standing tradition that linked character with maleness. When sometime around 320 BCE Theophrastus wrote the text which became known as his Characters, the ...

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A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

'Alien: Earth' creator has no plans for a 'Predator' crossover on the Hulu series. 20th Century Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection/Kurt Iswarienko/FX Although Predator recently ventured back into the ...