From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Some stories are so strange and so full of emotion that they refuse to fade away. The case of Travis Walton is one of those ...

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in eerily fluent prose, yet the most unsettling ...

I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my other ...

On the Pluribus Season 1 finale, Carol had a whirlwind romance with the world before remembering she needed to save it.

The journey through the Wasteland continues! After getting off to a promising start with its season 2 premiere, Fallout is ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

The difference is that arthouse is art, and knows it. These are films which proudly aim beyond mere money-making for multinational media conglomerates. They push at the boundaries of the form, explore ...

We’ve all been there. You are at a dinner party, a family reunion, or—heaven forbid—a baby shower. The conversation is ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Among others, “Stranger Things” most prominently draws from Project MKUltra and the unconfirmed Montauk Project, combining ...