Besides the original cult hit film, the sci-fi franchise Alien Nation also encompasses a TV series and several TV movies ...

Nebulasexual is a term that has begun appearing more frequently in conversations about sexuality, yet for many, it remains poorly understood. At first glance, the name may sound cosmic, even comical.

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How did Sarah Schachner make the Yautja sing? Read our 'Predator: Badlands' interview on the film’s killer score and cultural world-building.

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The prey may change — the planets, too, their digital backdrops swirling like screensavers — but take comfort in ...

When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, “Zero.” “My mouth will not ...

When Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi first auditioned for “Predator: Badlands,” he didn’t know he was trying out to play the first of the titular aliens to be the hero, instead of a villain, in the 38 ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...

They may sound out of this world, but languages like Klingon and Na’vi were created right here on earth by linguists. And this Thursday the brilliant minds behind those alien languages will be ...