For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Erik Aadahl, the sound designer behind “Project Hail Mary” and 2014’s “Godzilla,” uses his background in biology to bring ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

'With the sound, we’re trying to paint a picture of what is Rocky's sonic soul.' ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Even as Hollywood still drives how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads, fiction soon could be ...

Many hope the website will fulfill Trump's promise to release government files on UFOs. The Trump administration has registered an Aliens.gov website, as the President promises to release files ...

Aliens did not visit Earth in the distant past. They didn't build the pyramids or rule ancient Greece from Mount Olympus or teach Mesoamericans how to plant corn. How do I know? Because they didn't do ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

With 'Disclosure Day' on the horizon, Spielberg wants everyone to know he's real believer when it comes to aliens. Reading time 2 minutes With Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg has made his first UFO ...

Steven Spielberg believes in aliens and has warned "we are not alone on Earth". The 79-year-old filmmaker's upcoming movie Disclosure Day is about UFOs and while he "doesn't know" for sure if ...