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Feature / As major media capitulated to Trump this past year, student journalists held the powerful to account—both on campus and beyond. Adelaide Parker, Fatimah Azeem, Tareq AlSourani, and William ...
A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...
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.
Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...
Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...
Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind ...
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 ...
Throughout 2025, there have been 24 races of varying quality that eventually saw McLaren driver Lando Norris win his first Formula One Drivers' Championship in the final race at Abu Dhabi. Max ...
A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...
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 ...
‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...