Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Cinecittà Studios in Rome, has organized a retrospective of films dedicated to “the man who made creatures,” Carlos Rambaldi (1925-2012). MOMA curator ...

Carlo Rambaldi, the late mechatronics maestro best known for bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. to life, would have turned 100 this autumn. To celebrate, his daughter Daniela co ...

Abstract: One challenge in human-robot interaction is selecting communication methods that fit a given robotic system and avoid overpromising. For example, verbal speech provides a clear and ...

The interstellar comet 31/ATLAS has sparked widespread interest since its discovery, with some speculating it could offer clues about alien life. However, new research confirms there is no evidence ...

Britta DeVore is a Senior Author for Collider who has been known to dabble with Reality News as well. When she isn't sitting behind her laptop bringing readers her hot takes on upcoming projects or ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

Ideally, I want effects to stay up-to-date with the most recent values of their dependencies, even if that dependency was updated during the execution of the effect. If that were the case, I'd expect ...

Abstract: In this paper, we survey and provide a concise review of the recent results on the effects of actuation lag, communication delay and signal noise in cooperative adaptive cruise control ...