Aliens

Redfall creative director Harvey Smith believes the range of issues that developer Arkane faced during the development of the vampire game would have "tanked" a different studio. Appearing on the Iron Lords podcast, Smith listed off the many real-world events that transpired during the development of Redfall, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, murder hornets, aliens, and power outages in its local community of Austin, Texas, and much more."This team has been through…

Image: KillcutterWhat happens when the aliens from Aliens attack a T-Rex? Or a Predator sets its eyes on some Ewoks? What if Ant-Man climbed to the top of the Empire State Building or E.T. got a lightsaber? All those scenarios and more are being brought to life by artist Chuck Eiler, aka Killcutter, who loves to take collectible action figures and photograph them in exciting ways.If that rings a bell it’s because last year, io9 featured his takes on Hasbro’s Black Series Star Wars line. And they were incredibly cool. Now…

Nice of the Aliens to wait their turn Focus Entertainment has announced that Aliens: Dark Descent, a new video game adaptation of the terrifying sci-fi series, will officially launch June 20 on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms. The new game, which was first announced during Summer Game Fest 2022, will see a squad of hardened marines taking on an infestation on the dark planet, Moon Lethe. Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time strategy title and will task the player with efficiently equipping, maneuvering, and affording…

The moon crashing into Earth may sound like an unrealistic doomsday scenario or the stuff of sci-fi disasters. But for some planets in other star systems, such catastrophic collisions may be common. New research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyuses computer simulations to show that collisions between exoplanets and their moons (called exomoons) may actually be a regular occurrence, which could be disastrous for any budding alien life on those planets. While astronomers have yet…

Libby Jackson, the Head of Space Exploration in the UK, says that there is “no way” humans are the only life form in the universe, according to a report by Mirror. Jackson reportedly continued by saying that the existence of aliens isn’t a question of if but more a question of when we’ll find more answers to those burning questions. This report isn’t all that surprising as scientists have claimed that alien life almost certainly exists in some fashion in past studies. Jackson is just one of the most recent…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Transcript Clara Moskowitz: This is Clara Moskowitz and you're listening to the Science Quickly podcast from Scientific American. Today, we're talking about life as we don't know it. Sarah Scoles just wrote a piece for us in our February magazine on that very subject. Sarah, hi. Sarah Scoles: Hi, Clara. How are you? Moskowitz: I’m great. Thanks for joining us. Scoles: Thanks for having me. Moskowitz: So what exactly is life as we don't know it or as you brilliantly call it in the story:…

Unfortunately for the dedicated alien conspiracy theorists among us, the time is apparently not yet nigh to don your tinfoil hats. The Biden Administration has declared that the recent instances of unidentified aerial objects being shot down over U.S. and Canadian territory are not related to extra-terrestrial life. “I know there’ve been questions and concerns about this, but there is no—again no—indication of aliens or extra-terrestrial activity with these recent take downs,” said White House press secretary Karine…

The existence of aliens has always intrigued us, and now artificial intelligence help detect them We have long been interested in the possibility of alien life, and for many years, humans have conducted extensive research on the subject. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed in this endeavor to determine whether aliens exist. The SETI investigation, where AI is attempting to find electromagnetic-radiation signals emanating from a technologically sophisticated civilization in a distant solar system, is known as…

Of course, the challenge will be applying scientific standardization to something that might not be scientific at all. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and people interpret what they see based on factors like current events and their scientific, political, and cultural backgrounds. “The data you’re getting is socially constructed,” says University of Pennsylvania historian Kate Dorsch, who specializes in scientific knowledge production.Courtesy of Enigma LabsUFO sightings began as an American obsession…

Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu Melville House, 2023 ($27.99) In Slime: A Natural History, science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts her readers’ repulsion. Although “we are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page 2, the mere mention of the name connotes images of sickness, death, and other taboo experiences of modern, “hyperhygienic” life that we often try to keep unspoken and out of view. Wedlich intends to change the perception of slime from something…