Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us human are thought to hide instead in the DNA that controls when and where ...

After nearly a decade, Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise with a contemporary take. The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will ...

Researchers believe a young man buried inside a Scottish castle was a victim of the long-feared siege weapon, more powerful than a typical catapult. By K. R. Callaway Today, Stirling Castle is a ...

The most revealing science moment in Lanterns Season 1, Episode 1 was not the green energy bubble that contained the suicide bombing. It was the alien's taunt before it — the observation that Hal ...

The result of a late 1980s brainstorming session between executives and creators, Dark Horse Comics Aliens Vs Predator #0 would appear on comic book stands in July of 1990. It’s the kind of “holy sh*t ...

Olympic Skeleton is a high adrenaline sliding event which is a combination of speed, navigational skill, and pure daredevil courage. Though the discipline is similar to luge and bobsleigh with ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...