The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the terrifying concept of the Great Filter to explain the chilling reality of why alien civilizations remain completely silent.

This creature doesn’t think the way we do—because it doesn’t have just one brain. With 9 brains and 3 hearts, it can process ...

Abstract This paper asks a simple question: when African countries have turned against foreign nationals through mob violence ...

Would-be Maine Democratic nominees condemned ICE and called for defunding the agency after a man was fatally shot in ...

One bullet that tore through his ear instead of his skull, and America avoided a catastrophe whose full cost we could not ...

Hold aside, as well, that socialism and communism have resulted in horrific resource scarcity and immeasurable immiseration everywhere they have been attempted. At the most basic level, socialism is ...

It was an ‘emergency’ to finish by July 4.” The incompetent contractor screwed up, and incompetent Trump screwed you, his ...

For there to be a hostile occupation, territory of a nation or state must actually be placed under the authority of a ...

The Democratic Party has come a long way since Bill Clinton was president — and not in a good way. In 1993, the first year of ...

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the man ignored commands to stop and attempted to ram an agent ...

I’m no political consultant, but I don’t think I would make “fraud” the theme of the Trump administration’s midterm election ...

Euro ⁠zone bond yields rose on Tuesday as investors weighed ​the longer-term outlook for borrowing, with their focus on French political risk and German budget and fiscal policy. Germany's 10-year ...