Humans assume we’d unite and win. History says otherwise. Every time a technologically superior force arrived to dominate ...

Over the years, some sci-fi movies have proven to be so disastrous that they effectively killed their entire franchise.

Over the last 100 years, sci-fi films have reflected shifting cultural anxieties: from industrialization and nuclear war to ...

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The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the United ...

The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and seized our diplomatic personnel in November 1979. If that wasn't enough of a national embarrassment, a dramatic rescue attempt by the U.S. military in ...

There was once a showdown between the City of Joburg and a bunch of inventors and it came down to who had the better body ...

A smartphone, shaken by its owner’s nerves, captures video of a standoff between masked immigration enforcement agents and a ...

There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s perpetual ...

This interview with Malek Bennabi, recorded in Tripoli (Libya) on 24 January 1973, belongs to this rare category. It ...

It was never reported whether any UFOs actually checked it out over the decades it existed, but Pendarvis was quoted as ...

The 1983 sci-fi miniseries V features an ominous storyline where the media is undermined by a bigger force, making it feel ...