New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

These games are usually pretty inexpensive, especially in comparison to the eye-watering $70 price tags of some games these ...

At the very end of the movie, he is forced to decide between remaining in this fantastical realm or going back to Earth, with its harsh realities and cruel truths. In opting to go home, he makes the ...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also simply known as E.T.) was written by Melissa Mathison, with an initial concept dreamed up by ...

I keep waiting to become more cynical about movies as a film critic. Every week I read one think piece after the next about how cinema is dying and no good movies are made anymore, but 2025 was packed ...

People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.

Seth Rogen voices the alien in Paul (2011), starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. This sci-fi comedy features Sigourney Weaver ...

Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones imitators from the 1980s… In cinema, if ...

You're going to see a lot of stories in 2026 claiming soon-to-be-achieved science and tech advances. Here are the ones just ...

TV mastermind Noah Hawley reinvented both Fargo and X-Men. He’s the genius of “who would have thought there was another way ...

Justin Brenan and his team of diehard sailors from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, have sailed their Lidgard 36 yacht, ...

The mischievous alien starred in a billion-dollar grossing film, sold more than $4 billion in merchandise and took over for ...