The “Alien” movies vary widely in quality — there arguably hasn’t been a truly satisfying one since the first two in 1979 and 1986 — but a key thread has endured across the 46 years: However scary the ...
A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...
Nobody pleaded that "Fargo," that 1996 cinematic gem from Joel and Ethan Coen, should be made into a TV series. And yet writer and director Noah Hawley has (so far) delivered five seasons and an award ...
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...
Artificial intelligence occupies the minds of many these days, including the showrunner, Noah Hawley, of a new FX series based on the long-lurking “Alien” franchise, “Alien: Earth.” Mr. Hawley informs ...
The “Alien” horror franchise is back with another blockbuster. And really, would it be a post-“Aliens” sequel without a little controversy sowing division among fans and critics? Technically, “Alien: ...
Exoplanets in the habitable zone of their stars discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope - matching the Earth-Sun system - are prime targets for SETI "technosignature" searches ahead, say leading-edge ...
Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...