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You might not ever become a homeowner, but that doesn't mean you can't make your not-a-house as smart as possible.

The Xenomorphs from the Alien movie franchise were inspired by parasitoid wasps. That doesn't surprise Scott Egan, an evolutionary biologist at Rice University. He tells his students that if you can ...

As the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest marks its 50th anniversary, on-screen portrayals of mental illness and treatment have evolved.

I grew up in a rural community near Lillington. Our neighbors were mostly relatives and many black families who often worked on our farm. My concept of neighbor began to ...

Harry is brought in front of The Galactic Housing Council to answer for his crimes in a new episode of "Resident Alien" airing on Friday.

FX is teasing "Alien Earth - The Official Podcast," its upcoming podcast to accompany the release of its new series "Alien: Earth," both arriving Aug. 12.

The state asked the high court to lift a lower-court judge’s temporary block on enforcement of the law, which makes it illegal for an undocumented immigrant to enter or re-enter Florida.