First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

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The rich irony at the heart of the storied "Alien" franchise is that at the core of these encounters with the monstrous animal is a question of what, in fact, makes us truly human. The grand twist of ...