This works with any area of science, or indeed human life. In a way, the authoritarian excesses of the Earth-based regime known as the Mandate in my novel Alien Clay are as much a thought experiment ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

Have you read Max Evry's A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune? It's the kind of making-of movie book that's hard to come by these days - not just definitive, but also honest in a way that the ...

The new book Stranded on Earth covers how Steven Spielberg’s lost UFO movie Night Skies eventually morphed into E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Steven Spielberg has had a long association with aliens. One ...