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Rise of the AI Soldiers

The Phantom MK-1 looks the part of an AI soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what may be evoked by your typical humanoid robot. And ...
For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...
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.
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.
Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...
Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...
Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...
'Alien: Earth' premiered its first two episodes on Aug. 12 Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, entertainment, reality TV stars and news for five years. Alamy ...
Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...