“Bugonia” opens not with action, but with a conversation: two men, Don and Teddy, talking about bees. Teddy explains colony collapse disorder: a phenomenon where bees abandon their queen, leaving the ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

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 ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Many people, one brain. It’s a classic storytelling device, and it’s showing up a lot more lately. By Maya Phillips This story contains spoilers. Masses of humans moving in total synchronization.

What does Netflix's "Pluribus" show us about human cooperation? Spoilers included. In "Pluribus," humanity is presented with an evolutionary ultimatum. An alien virus rapidly transforms the global ...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Pluribus” Episode 9. “Pluribus” put its two unlikely heroes on the path to saving the world in the Season 1 finale, but not without some messy bickering first.

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Crypto mining has long been defined by boom-and-bust cycles. But HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: HIVE) says its next phase isn't about timing Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) — it's about building a ...

Classified as post-apocalyptic science fiction, Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" does have mystery elements, particularly surrounding the alien virus that has transformed the rest of humanity. During a ...