You finish 'Project Hail Mary', and something stays with you. It is not just the science or the stakes. It is the feeling.

Alien: Earth impressed critics with bold ideas, but its radical changes left long-time fans of the franchise deeply divided ...

"Final Girls" are a big part of the horror genre, and video games are no different. In some cases, players become the ultimate final girl.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

I've got a lot of sympathy for any game that tries to cram the entire plot arc and premise into not just the title, but the title's acronym. Still I'm pretty lukewarm on the aliens so far. Rebellion ...

The survival horror genre is filled with exceptional games, but not all of them are strictly “scary” by definition. For example, the action-horror of Resident Evil gives you the tools to deal with ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

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