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4 Loop, the co-op shooter from Left 4 Dead designer Mike Booth and JJ Abrams' studio Bad Robot Games, has a roguelike structure, along with lots of wacky, interlocking systems like alien plant life ...

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In the wake of xAI losing two of its co-founders and other prominent employees, Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting at his ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of massive hypothetical energy-harvesting structures called Dyson spheres. In a new study, they showed that both stellar ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

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 ...

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A controversial new scientific paper has sent shockwaves through the academic community by suggesting that life on Earth may not have emerged through natural processes alone, but could instead be the ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...