FeatureScifi
Aliens: the science facts behind the science fictions (article).
Michael Siegel is here to look at the science facts behind the science fictions of the “Alien” and “Aliens” movies, directed by Ridley…
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January 2023
April 2022
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Multi-Species Empires: Alien Civilisations (science video).
When reading science fiction, it’s typical to come across interstellar civilizations that are home to hundreds of happily coexisting alien species. But are…
October 2021
NewsScience
What might real aliens look like? (science video)
In this hour-long science video, Dr. Arik Kershenbaum chats with the Event Horizon crew about what we know aliens might look like, based…
June 2021
NewsWorld getting weirder
Is there an alien scout craft hiding concealed within the Solar System’s Kuiper Belt? (weird news video)
Is there an alien scout craft hiding concealed within the Solar System’s Kuiper Belt? Well, maybe. It might sound like the beginning of…
February 2021
NewsScience
Meet your alien bestie, not beastie (science documentary).
Science fiction books, films, and TV shows usually show aliens and humans living in relative harmony across the galaxy, but how realistic are…
January 2021
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Halcyon Power Loader Model: a model-building exercise article by: GF Willmetts.
Introduction A couple years back, moving in a new bookcase into my front room, I hadn’t anticipated the whoopf! of air pressure putting…
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Oumuamua: first alien solar-sail probe to visit the Solar System? (science video)
Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, explains why in his new book, Extraterrestrial: The…
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Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was an alien light-sail craft (video).
Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was more likely than not to have been a light-sail powered piece…
October 2020
NewsScience
Aliens that horrify (science video).
It’s Halloween time, wa-ha-ha, so what could be better than a half-hour sit-down as we consider a variety of the scariest and most…
NewsWorld getting weirder
Soviet Union blundered into underwater alien UFO base: divers died (video).
Declassified military files released from the USSR after its fall detail one of the oddest – and nastiest – UFO encounters of all…
August 2020
FeatureScifi
Aliens In Isolation: an article by: GF Willmetts (article).
Ever since the finale of the 1953 film version of HG Wells’ ‘War Of The Worlds’, aliens on Earth could fall foul to…
NewsScience
Aliens: gods or invaders? (science documentary: video).
This science panel asks are we alone in this vast universe? Some think that’s highly unlikely. With new technologies joining the search, NASA…