4 black eggs surfaced from the dark heart of the ocean—with alien creatures inside

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.
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Detecting intelligence in the dark, Shannon entropy and the search for alien signals

Before we can find alien intelligence, we must first define what intelligence looks like from the outside. The answer, ...

This Netflix Sci-Fi Movie Combines An Alien Invasion With A Squid Game-Esque Premise

If you're looking for a new sci-fi movie to check out on Netflix, this movie that blends the intensity of "12 Angry Men" with ...
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

One Year Ago, Crunchyroll Released Its Darkest Shonen Anime of 2025 (And It Still Holds That Title)

Crunchyroll's darkest anime of Summer 2025, Takopi's Original Sin, has emerged as one of the darkest anime in recent years.

10 Action Movies That Are Intense From Start to Finish

From The Fugitive, to Mad Max: Fury Road, to Taken, these action films bring the intensity from beginning to the end.

Ryan Gosling Plays A Sixth-Grade Science Teacher Who Has To Save The World — And It's Incredible

Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in "Project Hail Mary." Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios In “Project Hail Mary,” the new ...
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The Founding Father of American literature, Charles Brockden Brown saw his nation’s dark side

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

WWII Pilots Were Tailed in the Night By Mysterious Fireballs They Couldn’t Shoot Down or Outrun

The pilots dubbed the fireballs “foo fighters” but had no idea what they were. Plasma? Enemy tech? Aliens? We still haven’t ...

10 Independence Day Weekend Movie Releases That Became Classics

While some Independence Day weekend releases end up being duds, others join a rare list of absolute stone-cold classics.

I’m a psychiatrist who was terrified of horror films – until I learned about ‘cinematic neurosis’

Why do scary movies thrill some viewers and send others running for the hills? Our writer gets to the bottom of his fear of the genre – with the assistance of Freud, clinical researchers and his six-y ...