A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. Journalist Becky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timothy Olyphant in "Alien: Earth." (Patrick Brown/FX) The rich irony at the heart of the storied "Alien" franchise is that at the ...

The following contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth. It comes to light that Kavalier is building synthetics with the sole purpose of placing human consciousness inside of them, ...