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The curious minds at What If explore whether humanity could survive a sudden mass migration to Mars, examining the extreme challenges of gravity, atmosphere, and life in an alien world.

Speculative alien messages raise unsettling possibilities about cosmic survival, warning that advanced civilizations may leave behind silence, graves, or threats.

What Price for Due Process? On Monday, toward the end of another court hearing in the interminable Alien Enemies ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

Randolph Bourne, the Bloomfield‑born critic of American militarism, warned that civil liberties erode when authoritarian ...

A federal appeals court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security can lawfully detain illegal immigrants nationwide without bond hearings, delivering a major legal win for the Trump ...

A young rock-pooler discovered a rare 'alien-like' winged creature washed up on a Devon beach. Charley Taviner, five, was following a crab when he found what he thought was a huge lump of seaweed. But ...