The Alien franchise is one of the most important in all of sci-fi cinema, with each instalment charting the evolution of the ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few Star Wars fans among biologists. These ones have used their opportunity to name a new species to make reference to their beloved franchise.

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

For more than 40 years, researchers suspected this species might operate in such an extreme way, but they couldn’t prove it. Now, a new study confirms it. This is the first known ant species made up ...

In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, mysterious ways—it all reeks of Xenomorphs. At a loss, the Hume City police call in Special ...