If you have ever shopped at a Uniqlo store, you've likely been as amazed as I have by the automated checkout: You put all your items in a basket, and they are instantly scanned rather than needing ...

UPS announced Tuesday that a major rollout of RFID technology is revolutionizing its U.S. network at an unprecedented scale. Thanks to the shrinking cost of radio-frequency identification labels — ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Remember that scene in the 2002 film "Signs" when Joaquin Phoenix wore an aluminum foil cap to defend against extraterrestrial mind control?

In Julian Huxley's 1927 short story "The Tissue-Culture King," a scientist becomes lost in the jungle and is captured by a tribe. He soon discovers that the tribal leader has developed a way to ...

Alien: Earth introduces four new alien species to the franchise and brings back the Xenomorph. Here’s what we know about each of the aliens. The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in "Alien: Romulus" (20th Century Studios) Few cinematic characters have left as big of an impression as Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver’s iconic “Alien” survivor, who ...