In your story “ The Blight ,” David Hastings, a semi-retired executive who is grappling with the onset of dementia and ...

Since the flesh-eating screwworm fly reinvaded Mexico in 2024, human cases of the voracious parasite have been mounting.

After decades of secrecy, stigma, and sometimes silliness—like the conspiratorial tales about recovered spacecraft and alien ...

Vibrio vulnificus thrives in warm coastal waters, and people can get sickened by it through raw shellfish or open wounds.

The White House’s controversial Aliens.gov portal dehumanises undocumented non-US citizens by blurring the boundaries between ...

A copy of the game Ripley’s Hive Exterminator Pack – Includes an exclusive cosmetic outfit themed to Ellen Ripley’s appearance near the dramatic climax of 1986’s blockbuster masterpiece, Aliens. All ...

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Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other? Credit...Lydia Ortiz Supported by By Alexandra Alter A few years ago, the playwright and TV writer Megan Mostyn-Brown had an ...

Rocky from Project Hail Mary may be lovable, but the science behind him is far stranger than most movie aliens. Andy Weir built the creature around a real exoplanet idea: a brutal world with 210°C ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise questions. Anthropologists have uncovered bones cut up with axes and ...

It was a close encounter of the Schiff kind. President Trump made an out of this world jibe when he was allegedly briefed on alien “hybrids” living among humans, a congressman claimed this week.