From iconic openings to genre-defining classics, these sci-fi films signaled greatness within minutes and spent the rest of their runtime proving it.

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Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator ...

Ms. Chozick, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of the forthcoming novel “With Friends Like You.” Back in 2005, when I was recently out of college and new to New York, one of my closest ...

Nearly 80% of Americans aged 12 and older have consumed alcohol at least once in their lives, and 10% of the population suffers from alcohol use disorder. And yet, scientists still know surprisingly ...

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, ...

“Heated Rivalry” stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are almost as close in real life as their on-screen characters. “Me and Hudson had the chemistry down before we even started acting,” Storrie, ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

If there’s one thing humans excel at, it’s finding increasingly imaginative ways to waste their lives away. Whether it’s scrolling through TikTok, polishing résumés for jobs we don’t want, or ...

Could smoking pot lead people to drink less alcohol? In an elaborate and provocative experiment, scientists doled out joints and free drinks to see whether this idea — sometimes described as ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...