Shortly after ET the Extra-Terrestrial was released in 1982, Ronald Reagan hosted a special screening of the film at the White House. Steven Spielberg, the film’s director, later recalled that, as the ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a strange, star-shaped scar has become an unlikely focal point in the search ...

The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long been of interest to NASA because they believe it could host an ocean underneath its ...

Police are investigating the homicide of Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner, whose bodies were discovered at their Brentwood ...

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 ...

Denise Mina is the author of 20 novels, five plays, a number of graphic novels and scores of short stories. She lives and works in Glasgow. Many years ago NCJ had all of the fingers on his right hand ...

This isn't the world we were meant to be living in, and advertising has suffered because of it. But can we get to a place ...

Price tags reveal the democratic nature of this marketplace, where spending forty dollars genuinely fills your vehicle with finds. You could grab a stack of vintage magazines, some glassware, a few ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

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

Vampires, ping-pong champions, missing kids, and superheroes. The year in cinema was one wild ride. Here’s what was worth ...