Registration is now open for the 2026 edition of Crossword Con on April 10 in New York. I gave a talk about Sunday crosswords at this event last year, and it was remarkably fun to do even though I was ...

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and ...

The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...

Over 40 percent of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and hippopotamuses, have ...

The Trump administration is using the same racist playbook — including the Alien Enemies Act — to cleanse America of immigrants from non-white nations.

The X-Files had a long alien conspiracy theory mythology, but some of its best episodes were Monster of the Week.

Let’s suppose. Let’s suppose you went into a bank and tried to open an account or take out a loan without proving your identity. Let’s suppose you tried to get a hunting or fishing license without ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Sewer netting, fish traps, and rare aquarium species everywhere, this tunnel keeps delivering. Martin Lewis issues urgent warning to people with money in a savings account Why is Farage's attendance ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...